Well, someone could suggest that the bred-in knob is the stable feature in a larger evolutionary/ecological system in which the breed and individual organism are finer grained components entrained by the larger dynamic. So by slicing out the organism's timescale from the evolutionary timescale, we're *not* being reductionist. We're (somehow) allowing a logical layer of abstraction between the two granularities ... as if we could EVER talk about the organism without also talking about its evolutionary context.
On 1/16/19 3:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I think of the "experience being with other people" as sort of like how my > herding dog follows me from room to room. There's a knob in her head that > is set to keep a visual distance with her people. It's what she expects and > it comes from her breed. It's not the result of a dynamical system that > occurs has occurred on the timescale of her life. It is a > reductionist/thin/flat explanation for the dog and the basketball player and > the choir singer. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
