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Re: Re: Ghost in the machine |
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Victor |
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Mar 15, 06 - 3:05 AM |
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The whole point of the "book how the brain makes up its mind" was to look at how mental processes, which includes emotions can be emergent properties of chemical and electrical signals sent and received by neurons. Complexity is a new science and the understandings are changing very rapidly. A few years ago I might have accepted what you say, but the developments I am reading about suggest that complexity is becoming far more applicable to organic processes.
The example of the sea fits more with Chaos Theory, focussing on how simples processes can have complex results, while the focus of complexity is more about how complex systems, such as the mind can self organise so the whole system can operate in co-ordinated that would not be apparent from examining the parts. |
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