[Fis] New Discussion Session--Complexity & feedback

[Pedro C. Marijuán]

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El 03/11/2024 a las 11:38, Karl Javorszky escribió:
> Thank you Alex,
>
> The relevant paragraph should read :
>
> Zhengson questions the necessity of including classical thinkers in a 
> discussion of the contemporary problems of information theory 
> appearing in biology. This he does from the base of a relatively more 
> nirvanic intellectual home than the relatively more samsaric 
> intellectual home of us in the West. The advantage lies in 3000 years 
> more of thinking about life.
>
> Specifically Chinese have figured out that it is more reasonable to 
> look at how the whole gives profile to the parts than how the parts 
> assemble into a whole. (The cells doing my thinking are not a 
> democratic association of independent individuals but parts of a 
> cooperation among parts of cooperation.) We in the West have a world 
> view in which one has to find the groups one belongs to. To me the 
> concept of a pre-axiomatic existence of a multitude, in and out of 
> which individuals differentiate, appears deeper. The idea of an 
> element not having any relationships at all is unthinkable for the 
> advanced Orient. We barbarians have to explicitly go back and leave 
> the Void and Nihil surrounding our mental images. This is why we need 
> the thinkers of the roots.
>
>
> Thank you for the remark, Alex
>
> Karl
>