Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA23343 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 30 Nov 2001 05:47:05 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:42:08 -0800 Message-Id: <200111300542.fAU5g8j12494@mail18.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.249.221] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: A Question for Wade Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: A Question for WadeDate: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:22:12 -0500
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>>From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
>>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>>Subject: Re: A Question for Wade
>>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:35:42 -0800
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>>It is far from necessary to adopt philosophical idealism to acknowledge the
>>centrality of meaning and cognitive emergenesis; I do so from a materialist
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>Is "emergenesis"actually a word? Can't find it in my MWCD10 and I don't have
>an OED handy...
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>Were you being fancy?
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It was coined (AFAIK) by a researcher who used it in the title for the Minnesota twin studies, which formulated the rule of two thirds, which states that our personal preferences tend to be roughly two thirds genetic and one third environmental). It refers to the genesis of the emergence of recursive mind, as a dynamic patterning, from the material substrate brain.
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