[MD] Emergence of Purpose

[ian glendinning]

:-)

On 8/10/06, Case <Case at ispots.com> wrote:
> [Ian]
> Case I agree the Myxobacter swarming is much closer to mammalian
> zygote development ... that's what's really weird (and interesting)
> IMHO.
>
> I put the example up for people who were sceptical that emergence was
> a real phenomenon, not really to start a debate about the difference
> between different emergent situations, between people who already get
> it :-)
>
> Oh well, never mind.
>
> [Case]
> Imagine that: a discussion in this forum between people who agree with each
> other. I thought there was a rule or something.
>
> But just to keep us out of trouble there was this:
>
> [Ian]
> OK so you had your dig at the Japanese, Case, but that didn't have anything
> to do with why I brought up Sun Tzu ... (I don't think the Chinese added
> much to the Sanskrit either, except to "spread the Buddhist word" but that's
> a different point again.)
>
> [Case]
> Taoism is purely Chinese. It has nothing to do with Sanskrit, Buddhists or
> Hindus either.
>
> Here a nit, there a nit, everywhere to nit to pick...
>
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