Corrie van Wijk
25-05-2008, 02:58 PM
Oxford Dictionary:
Quote:
Coincide: Occupy same portion of space; occur at and occupy same time; agree together or with; concur in opinion, etc.
Coincidence: (Instance of) being coincident; notable concurrence of events in circumstances without apparent causal connexion.
What is the relationship between "without apparent causal connexion" and emergence?
Antonio Damasio states in ‘Descartes error – Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain’ (1994): "Decisions about the typical personal problems that occur in complicated and unpredictable social situations require both a broad knowledge ánd thinkingstrategies to process that knowledge. […] The organisation of the brain implies that the required broad knowledge depends on numerous systems and, in stead of in one single area, is localised in relatively separate brain areas. A big part of that knowledge takes the form of a representation, that is memorized, not in one single spot, but spread over many spots in the brain. Probably the relative simultaneity of the spread activities connects the different parts of the brain."
So a ‘notable concurrence of events’ is probably not just a coincidence, but the brain ‘noting’ similarities and putting the pieces together at the same time.
That is why the process of clean space requires the person moving around relatively quicly (so never ‘model’ a space!) to ‘dowload the information’ as David called it, and collect the fragments in order to have "goals, possible actions, predictions of the result of those actions and timeplans for the realisation of those goals" emerge.
Quote:
Coincide: Occupy same portion of space; occur at and occupy same time; agree together or with; concur in opinion, etc.
Coincidence: (Instance of) being coincident; notable concurrence of events in circumstances without apparent causal connexion.
What is the relationship between "without apparent causal connexion" and emergence?
Antonio Damasio states in ‘Descartes error – Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain’ (1994): "Decisions about the typical personal problems that occur in complicated and unpredictable social situations require both a broad knowledge ánd thinkingstrategies to process that knowledge. […] The organisation of the brain implies that the required broad knowledge depends on numerous systems and, in stead of in one single area, is localised in relatively separate brain areas. A big part of that knowledge takes the form of a representation, that is memorized, not in one single spot, but spread over many spots in the brain. Probably the relative simultaneity of the spread activities connects the different parts of the brain."
So a ‘notable concurrence of events’ is probably not just a coincidence, but the brain ‘noting’ similarities and putting the pieces together at the same time.
That is why the process of clean space requires the person moving around relatively quicly (so never ‘model’ a space!) to ‘dowload the information’ as David called it, and collect the fragments in order to have "goals, possible actions, predictions of the result of those actions and timeplans for the realisation of those goals" emerge.