Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA12398 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:17:42 +0100 Subject: Re: The Tipping Point Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:10:44 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010429231044.AAA24405@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.44]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Joe E. Dees -
>> Perhaps you could just indicate whether you're now prepared to accept
>> diagonal causation.
>>
>No. Im willing to accept that decisions affect subsequent
>decisions horizontally, and that neural events effect subsequent
>neural events horizontally, but add that decisions and neural events
>effect each other vertically, and that this is not an artifact of
>explanatory levels, but an actual physical phenomenon.
Which tells me, I think, that 'diagonal' is not permitted, but,
horizontal and vertical are, like the move of knight in chess. There is
no crow flying.
- Wade
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