Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Feb 10, 2010; 9:08pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/speaking-of-evolution-and-self-organization-tp4550631p4550866.html
Perhaps you should lead a course in it for CUSF next fall. Please send me
stuff to feel guilty about no reading. (Actually, I am serious. I am
falling way behind in this area).
To have the teacher in one place and the students in another might actually
work on SKYPE.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (
[hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella <
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> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> Date: 2/10/2010 1:35:28 PM
> Subject: [FRIAM] speaking of evolution and self-organization
>
>
> I'm nearing the end of my (first?) scan of "Evolution without Selection"
> by Antonio Lima-de-Faria. I really enjoy alternatives to the dominant
> theories. They help me understand more about the claims of the dominant
> theory, as well as ways in which it might be false. For example, I
> learned quite a bit about fossil fuels reading Gold's "Deep Hot
Biosphere".
>
> LdF's concept of autoevolution is very cool and I'm wondering
> why/whether more people don't/do talk about it. Is it because in the
> years since he wrote the book, neo-Darwinism has refined selection and
> encompassed autoevolution? (This is what I suspect.) Or is it that
> some of his rhetoric (which seems to consist mostly of ad hoc
> morphological analogies) is too weak to be useful?
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> --
> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095,
http://agent-based-modeling.com>
>
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