Topic: | Re:Re:Importance of Emergence |
Posted by: | John Grinder |
Date/Time: | 06/02/2004 20:53:14 |
Todd Pretty example - it does beg the key question as to whether there is something in such emergent phenomena outside of the brute fact that we (species - we) seem to be incapable of examining generative systems (specifically, recursive rule systems) and calculating the "emergent" phenomenon that appears. This, of course, is another way of posing the question whether there is something in emergent phenonema that is cannot be accounted for by this apparent (at this historical point at any rate - you correctly point out the historical development of the appreciation of juggling) inability to calculate the consequences of these simple generative systems. This is, of course, the central thesis of Wolframs' challenge to the present coding of scientific patterning (A New Kind of Science). John |