Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-19 Thread glen
This post successfully describes my thoughts ... and in a criticism of my favorite "economist" von Hayek to boot! http://evonomics.com/cognitive-economics-intelligence-mulgan/ > It’s an appealing view. But self-organization is not an altogether-coherent > concept and has often turned out to be

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-19 Thread Nick Thompson
I agree, Glen. It relates to another problem that interests me. Natural selection cannot work unless there is additive genetic variance, i.e., a gene has to have an effect on a selectable trait, free and clear of the effects of other traits. But given all the vast entanglements of the geneti