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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Randomness is a human concept (was Re: Time is a human concept)
Message-ID: <1994Nov7.165125.29257@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Brighton, UK
References: <baverill.4.2EB72A96@dormnet.stu1.uconn.edu> <1994Nov4.120419.7601@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1994Nov4.212525.22792@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 16:51:25 GMT
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In article <1994Nov4.212525.22792@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens) writes:
>In Bateson's terms, biology is on the look-out for difference, specifically
>the difference that makes a difference to US.  It isn't on the look-out
>for pattern per se.  Pattern simply tells us something about what we 
>understand, failures of pattern -- INCLUDING RANDOMNESS -- tell us about
>something in the universe that is still interesting and new, some structure
>about our inputs aside from what we have imposed with our biology.

One man's noise is another man's PhD (again).

(Sorry... I'm presently attempting to make this response fit in to
every thread that is currently active in this group :-)
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

