Even though microcomputers employ a large number of devices, on a binary level all states can be known and even predicted with virtual certainity which removes...
Marty See my article in the most recent issue of E:CO. What you are talking about is the human equivalent of attractors -- personality, group dyanmics, and...
from Lewis I deliberately left it up to people to make individual requests. Attached is the article in pdf. I have some further comments on the concept of...
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Dave, I never said East was bad, west is good. Second, don't you believe the binary, the dual always asserts itself. I do. I think you can't get rid of it. The...
Dave: Does it really need to be harsh? Life, the experience and awareness for being and becoming alive, while a challenge to explain in a manner that is more...
Re: below Lewis, I read the Waldrop book when it was new (~12+? years ago) and made my opinion based on its content. There was another book similarly in time...
and I can agree with much of this (especially the farming points) - it does however have nothing to do with my criticism of a primitive, ideological, value...
Dave, I recently came across this quote, "There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who think people can be put in one of two categories and those who...
Hey Lewis, Your post gave me a few thoughts. I agree that complexity doesn't rule out reductionism. It just rules out an absolute reductionism. I think this...
Hey Buck, Don't we build mental constructs for more reasons than ego defenses? Don't we build them to understand, experience and communicate the world. Aren't ...
I am starting to formulate a theory as to why so much of the dialogue on complexity at the moment is of little use. (I admit this may get a little debateable)....
I inserted some comments in your text, marked with RU Regards, Dr. R. Uchtmann ... RU: I did not write the text you refer to above, but many ingredients ...
John - I quote from your original post "Indeed complexity, and everything else about the postmodern age in which we are, is eastern to the core. What defines...
Hey Jon, To say that some mental constructs function as ego defenses is not the same as saying all mental constructs function as ego defenses. You are right of...
Hi Bill, I relate to your note. In studying the philosophy of John Bennett, I have found that we can look at the world from a perspective of the progression...
to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith ... I visited this URL [the first one] and got lost in the verbiage. Sorry. I have learned a lot of...
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to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith Ref. Jon's comments on my posting on reductionism. The first three paragraphs are clear and I more or less...
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to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith Not being as erudite as some of the parcipants in this DG, I cannot help but feel some sympathy for A...
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to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith Marty recommended a URL for us to learn more about the "presence" movement. I took up his offer and...
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Note: forwarded message attached. Lewis, with my unreliable mailbox I could not find the ref you called up. Refresh? I have no access to mag articles, am...
to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith Ref John A Mikes further posting of 07 Feb on the issue of the "wholeness" of complexity. If one is studying...
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Hi Dave and all, Sorry if this comes out as a double post. I got interrupted at the library and didn't get to complete the first post. I don't have ready and...
from Lewis L Smith The following is a download from "slashdot", the electronic technological daily. ...
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Here is a link to Capra's "The Turning Point" which you can read in it's entirety online. http://www.wplus.net/pp/Julia/Capra/CONTENTS.htm The work of Sorokin...
Jon: All points are turning in space! Looking in the Upper Room today, had reference to the meeting point of Jacob and Esau. Gen 32:1-12 and 33:1-10. The...
Capra, Sorokin and Toffler come from which intellectual tradition? East or West? They arose from and are a part of the western intellectual tradition and...
to Complex M from Lewis L Smith ... I don't get it. Of the "history is sequence" historians, Marx is even more rigid than Spengler or...
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Dave, You raise many questions and I can't deal with them all now. Let me just ask you a couple of questions. First, I'm unfamiliar with Lacan so perhaps you ...
Aren't we a bit beyond a limiting label-difference East-West in "science"? In religion the differences are sharper, because none of the 'big ones' wants to ...
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