Timeline for What is the meaning of "concrete whole"?
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 18:20 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Peter: It's a lengthy and dense argument, so I must admit I didn't take the trouble to follow it all through. But I did notice he seemed to be distinguishing his own metabolic circuit, assembly of neurons examples from typical earlier ones like Life, Mind, Deity, and since "half a mind" is obviously better than "no mind at all" (and can thus be an evolutionary stepping stone), I just supposed that was where he was heading. Whatever - my last paragraph above is really just irrelevant opinionating. The basic "meaning" of concrete as asked about is covered by the preceding text. | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 18:05 | comment | added | Peter | While I can understand how you might arrive at "Intelligent Design" from the excerpt given by the OP, I think if you read on in the link, the author is not making an argument for "Intelligent Design" but possibly the opposite. The author goes on to refute his "the only problem with focussing on..." sentence later in the book. The premise of the book is to defend explaining "emergence" in a non-hierarchal way and the author explicitly refers to "experiments" (simulations). An argument for "Intelligent Design" would imply hierarchy and the lack of "experiments" for explanation. | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 17:41 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 17:12 | vote | accept | verdery | ||
| Apr 22, 2016 at 16:59 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |