[Synapse elist] short response

[Erika Lincoln]

Thanks Vicki,
I will look into the essay
Erika

Erika Lincoln
Electronic Media Artist
Winnipeg/Manitoba/Canada
http://www.lincolnlab.net


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Vicki Sowry <ars at anat.org.au> wrote:

> From: Vicki Sowry <ars at anat.org.au>
> Subject: Re: [Synapse elist] short response
> To: "fur_princess at yahoo.ca, Synapse elist" <elist at synapse.net.au>
> Received: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 12:30 AM
> Re: Erika's comment..
> 
> On 20/6/08 9:42 AM, "Erika Lincoln"
> <fur_princess at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gordana,
> I think you are talking about.....how do I say...organisms
> in a
> > natural state, or biology, or wet life, (so many
> different terms). It seems to
> > be the way biologists talk about the emergence of new
> things. My question is
> > can you transfer this idea to AI when to my mind the
> things (for the lack of a
> > better word) do not emerge on their own, or maybe they
> do?
> 
> It is not just biologists who talk this way! In the most
> recent Leonardo
> issue, Ricard Sole has written a piece entitled 'On
> Networks and Monsters:
> the Possible and the Actual in Complex Systems'. In the
> article he refers to
> the adage "the whole is more than the sum of it's
> parts" and says it is
> actually more appropriate to say "the whole is
> different from the sum of
> it's parts" - suggesting that, from his point of
> view at least, things only
> ever "emerge on their own"... Which would also
> answer your question - " how
> can one conceive of the new when all one
> knows is what lies before
> them........???²
> 
> 
> Vicki
> 
> 
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