Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Importance of Emergence |
Posted by: | nj |
Date/Time: | 31/01/2004 20:29:23 |
Hello, Dr. Grinder. 1. You wrote, "what I was proposing is that one characteristic of the phenomena typically proposed is the our inability, given out analysis of the constituent phenomena to foresee the characteristics arising through the interactions of those constituents." At micro-scales, constituent behavior can be simply described. Yet interactions of those constituents achieve stable macro-states. It's actually the macro-states that scientists continue to model changes in, with success. Whether a person can think about the resulting sound when drumming a single piece, or not, an observer can listen to the resulting sound. Hence, the pattern of the resulting sound can be described very easily. If all that predicting the sound requires is description of the sound, then repetition of a prior-described drumming session is all that's needed to predict, and manipulate, it. If you can convince people that playing the part without concern for the final sound is important, I'd think you could lead them to find manipulating the final outcome less necessary. -nj |