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Chance: its meaning and significance
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
Chance: its meaning and significance
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Cause and affect: intentionality as first mover?
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
Cause and Affect: Intentionality as First Mover?
Doug Blank
3 December 2009
The Baldwin Effect: Intentionality in Biological Evolution?
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
Organic Evolution (aka the "Baldwin Effect"): Intentionality in Evolution?
Greg Davis
19 November 2009
The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality
Wil Franklin
5 November 2009
(to be continued 12 November)
Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency
Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009
Evolving Systems: Home Page
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
The Evolving Systems project is an exploration of the idea that form, meaning, and esthetics are interdependent emergent characteristics of an ongoing evolutionary process originally lacking any plan, intention, of purpose. And of the implications of such an idea for both intellectual and practical life.