Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!venera!vaxa.isi.edu!smoliar From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Emergence and Static Vs. Dynamic properties Message-ID: <12532@venera.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 90 17:35:34 GMT Sender: news@venera.UUCP Reply-To: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute Lines: 30 Summary: In article kp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) writes: > >The most important aspect of logic for present purposes is the immense >distance between the *practice* of logic and the *process* of perception. > So we DO have some agreement! The whole reason I wanted to get into this discussion in the first place was because of my interest in perception AS A PROCESS. Trying to focus attention on the perception of dynamic processes may have been a mistake, but I'm not willing to concede on that point yet. Nevertheless, it is the process side of the picture which interests me; and it seems that you have now admitted that the practice of logic is not appropriate for this concern. In a similar vein, I would argue that solving "the problem of understanding literature and poetry" is also not appropriate, since I am prepared to argue that what we "understand" about any artistic experience depends on what we PERCEIVE. Now, do you want to talk about the process of perception; or was it your intention to push it off into the background? ========================================================================= USPS: Stephen Smoliar USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, California 90292-6695 Internet: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu "Only a schoolteacher innocent of how literature is made could have written such a line."--Gore Vidal