[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)
Arlo Bensinger
ajb102 at psu.edu
Tue Jan 16 11:22:38 PST 2007
[David M to Case]
What makes the levels then? Organisation.
[Arlo]
What I'd interject here as a point of emphasis is that "organisation"
is an emergent phenomenon in the MOQ. That is, cells don't sit down
and decide to organize themselves into a human body (or a dog, or a
platypus...). That is, the "cell" has no idea whatsoever of the
"body" that emerges from its collective behavior (or organization).
So while organization (or collective activity, or even "organisation"
:-)) on a lower level gives rise to upper level patterns, it is not a
planned, deliberate activity to do so.
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