Re: Engels and indigenous peoples

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> gschofield@xxxxxxxxxx 05/10/01 08:25PM >>>
Charles, I will write a little more later on "compuational" although I have
over-used the term I used it merely to distinguish between a limited form
of useful brain activity as against a more highly developed modern form.
This response is just an immediate apology for my own misreading.

I have read incrementalism into your post, it was a presumption and I
believe I simply got the wrong end of the stick on some things you were
saying. Forgive me it was merely a misunderstanding, as other than a few
words which I interpreted in this way, nothing in the post or previous ones
indicates it. Again my apologies, but I doubt it will be the last time I
will be guilty of such an offense (I only wish that it might be).

More later.

Greg Schofield

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CB: Thanks Greg. No need to apologize. I am glad that we have the same 
perspective on the issue of the relationship between quantitative and 
qualitative change in general.

As to  "computational", I was thinking at first about "compute" in the sense of 
an adding machine, the original computers. But obviously "computers" today  do 
a lot more qualitative work as compared with the mainly quantitative work of 
adding machines.  So, I think I perhaps get the sense of your use of 
"computational". You mean more than the original counting, (though that would 
have been a leap at one point in development)