Topic: | Re:Importance of Emergence |
Posted by: | nj |
Date/Time: | 29/01/2004 20:28:15 |
Hello, Mr. Conklin. From my own reading of the work of John Searle, he considers consciousness to be an emergent phenomenon of the brain. My final take on his material might change - right now I'm just browsing some of his material. My reading of Searle's work prompted me to look into the WITW author's prior use of the term "emergence", and other suffixations of "emerg-". After some looking through Dr. Grinder and Ms. Bostic St. Clair's posts, posts that contained the word "emergence", I found that the authors used the term to refer to behavior or mental products that became surprisingly available to the conscious mind. In Red-Tail Math, the authors might explain a model of tacit learning in terms of its eventual emergent conscious products. I think that Dr. Grinder considers FA-phenomena to include products of induction. Maybe he'll describe such as products as emergent products. I've yet to specify for myself any possible referents for his usage of the term "induction"; scientists use the term in multiple ways, and I use it to refer to a logical level of argument. So I'm just guessing. -nj |