Better than WIMSATT?
OK, OK. I'll read the article.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Abbott
To: nickthomp...@earthlink.net;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Sent: 4/28/2009 11:46:08 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again
Unless you can tell me why I'm wrong, I will continue to claim that I've solved
the problems of emergence and reductionism in "The reductionist blind spot."
(Yes, it's an audacious claim.) You are welcome to look elsewhere of course,
but that paper is a significant advance beyond anything in the literature
including Cartwright, Miller/Page, and Bedau and Humphrey's collection. If you
disagree, tell me why. Sometimes it seems to me that people prefer to think of
emergence as mysterious. It's not.
-- Russ
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
I should have said that the properties of a, b, c and E are synchronic.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> [Original Message]
> From: russell standish <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>
> To: <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Date: 4/29/2009 6:14:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:33:42PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > Here
> > is the kind of problem that bothers philosophers: let a, b, and c
> > constitute macro-entity E and let the behavior of E. be controled by the
> > properties and intereactions of a, b and c. Now, let one of the
behaviors
> > of E to control the behavior of a, b, or c. Is there a problem here?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
> No. It sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of building a control
> system. Should there be a problem?
>
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