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On 18 Feb 2001, at 3:19, Scott Chase wrote:
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> >From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
> >Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:34:29 -0600
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> >On 17 Feb 2001, at 21:31, Wade T.Smith wrote:
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> > > Hi Joe E. Dees -
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> > > >And thus begins the endless journey into the semiotic web, where
> > > >each word meaning depends upon the meanings of a plethora of
> > > >others, endlessly.
> > >
> > > Which I'll graciously if hangheadedly admit to undertaking,
> > > perhaps all too often. But I remain somewhat confused about how
> > > one can talk about stability within dynamic processes, although,
> > > even the river's banks stay on their sides.
> > >
> >One may refer to stability not only as homeostasis, which is
> >remaining at a particular position, but also as homeorrhesis, which
> >is maintaining a particular rate of change.
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> (bq) "At the stage of ontogenetic development (Piaget's reference to a
> subsequent section of the book omitted) the central problem is that of
> the dynamic equilibrium of "channeled" formations- "homeorhesis,"
> which Waddington has rightly differentiated from homeostasis." (eq)
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> from page 12 of Jean Piaget's _Biology and Knowledge: an Essay on the
> Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes_ (1971.
> The University of Chicago Press. Chicago)
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> I expect grumblings from a certain PhD candidate from Australia about
> my reading this abysmal book by our favorite pond snail enthusiast
> with a penchant for developmental psychology and the effect of James
> Mark Baldwin.
>
I'm impressed. And I also recommend (at least!) four of his other
books: (1) THE EQUILIBRATION OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURES:
THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT,
(2) THE PRINCIPLES OF GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGY, (3) THE
GRASP OF CONSCIOUSNESS, and (4) STRUCTURALISM.
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