On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yeah, it's coming back to me now .. I remember holons and holarchies
> and all that stuff ;-)
>
> However, Koestler was writing before complex dynamics and attractors
> and such were well-understood and well-known ... and all this gives a
> quite different flavor to the web of ideas he was exploring, I
> think...

meaning: he didn't really understand the mechanisms that can give rise
to globally distributed memories in systems ... those became clear only via
experimentation with neural net software ...

ben g


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