[FRIAM] Abduction

[Nick Thompson]

Ok.   Good.  I like this.  Stick with me here. 

 

Keeping your language as citizen-y as possible, please talk to me about "heterarchy".  Being of great age, I learned the song, I'm my own GrandPa <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw>  in my youth.  I assume that’s an example of heterarchy.  But I bet you have better examples.  But perhaps even more important, where does the concept stand in your approach to things?  I stipulate that every duality asserted is like Siamese twins separated.  A lot of blood is inevitably spilled.  But no thought can possibly be achieved without that sort of blood-letting.  I think I am going to argue that to the extent that the idea of heterarchy might give one a better way to separate the babies it should be entertained;  but if it is a way of stopping the conversation how best the babies might be separated, then it should not.  

 

Thanks, Marcus, 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

 

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Heh, there you go again, rejecting the heterarchy! >8^D

 

I would claim motives are a higher order behavior, but NOT (solely) at a higher level of organization.  I.e. motives consist of BOTH low level behaviors like eyeball saccades AND high level behaviors like how one feels about another person.

 

On 1/3/19 10:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Motives ARE behavior.  Just at a higher level of organization.  

 

 

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