Ah.... can I change the requested line a small amount? "Once I've attached the 'emergent' label to a phenomenon, I now know that I CANNOT apply scientific methodologies to the problem that treat the phenomenon as if:
A) it is a simple aggregate of the ingredients B) its final state was determined by any individual ingredient C) its final state was determined by any number of 'purely internal' or 'purely external' factors D) its final state can be adequately described purely by reference to a lower level of analysis " I wish I could give a positive answer rather than a negative one, but of course we won't have that until the task is done (under some notions of what the task is). Better that time? Eric On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 10:42 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> wrote: > > > >That was a "quick >whack"? > >We operate on different plateaus. In different dimensions, >more likely. On different planets, certainly. > >I was hoping for >something more along the lines of > >"Once I've attached the 'emergent' >label to a phenomenon, I now know that I can apply the following scientific >methodologies to solve my problem:" > > >a) ... >b) ... >c) ... > >--Doug > >> > >>On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Nicholas Thompson ><<#>> >wrote: > > >> >> > >> >> >>let me take a quick whack at this. > > > > > >> > > > >>>>>[...] > > > > > > ============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601 Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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