From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 01:18:11 BST
Hi all,
> PLATT asks:
> Has anyone ever witnessed a new species being created?
Jonathan:
> My stock answer is that new species are created regularly and typically it
> happens at scientific conference, or in the publication of a scientific
> paper!!!!
>
> Biological evolution proceeds in small increments. It is humans who decide
> when the accumulated increments add up to a species difference.
Every species is constantly changing in response to every other species.
These changes occur within the biological level, however.
The new cohesions that we are talking about --the ones that would
constitute a truly dynamic response-- emerge through Quality events which
produce new types of patterns that include and transcend all lower level
patterns.
Anyway, my idea is to define a response to DQ as one that produces a higher
level pattern. See how this works:
Biological pattern produce new biological patterns all the time. But since
these patterns are on the same level as the patterns that produced them, we
may not want to call it a "dynamic response." Biological patterns are just
following the static pattern of changing in response to other species.
A dynamic response for the biological level would be to produce social
patterns (or perhaps some other new kind of pattern that we haven't
noticed).
Do humans respond to DQ? Yes, if we think of humans as social patterns that
can produce new intellectual patterns or intellectual patterns that can
produce some still higher level pattern.
What do you think?
Steve
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