Re: BHA: <fwd> S.J. Gould on new genome findings

["Erik Weissengruber" <epweissengruber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 

Did you notice at the end when Gould talks about mental properties as being emergent from particular genes, but not reducible to that gene.

I have seen CR philosophemes in Gould's writing, and wondered where they came from.  Is Gould familiar with Bhaskar?  Or do they both derive certain propositions from Whitehead (who introduced the concept of emergence, right?)

>From: Jan Straathof

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>Subject: Re: BHA: S.J. Gould on new genome findings

>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:53:00 +0100

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>hi all,

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>what i particularly liked in Gould's piece was the mentioning of the

>so-calles "noncoding regions (introns)/junk DNA,", a nice specimen

>imo of what RB would call the *presence of absence* as condition for

>"emergent properties".

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>yours,

>jan

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