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	May 3, 2003

ON EVOLUTION, COGNITION AND IDEOLOGY: THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Here are a few unselfish memes from people whose work I'm reading that may soon emerge on these pages; perhaps they'll inspire you, too. Evolution: Stuart Kauffman, The Origins of Order: We must re-think evolutionary biology. Much of the order we see in organisms may be the direct result not of natural selection but of the natural order selection was privileged to act on. Evolution is not just tinkering. It is emergent order honored and honed by selection. Cognition: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge Cognition is not a representation of an independently existing world, but rather a continuing bringing forth of a world through the process of living. The interactions of a living system with its environment are cognitive interactions, and the process of living itself is a process of cognition. To live is to know. Ideology: Stanislaw Lec, Polish Holocaust survivor and satirist, quoted in last week's New Yorker When smashing monuments, save the pedestals -- they always come in handy. 1:30:54 PM  trackback []  comment []

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