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April 22, 2015 at 11:07 pm #4037

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The ‘self” in this example are all the prefabbed constraints in the system — the oligonucleotides, the liquid crystal conditions, the precursors —Â all of which are externally caused. A self-organizing system doesn’t mean there’s a self that’s doing the organizing.
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Have you had the chance to read Terry and my chapter on this kind of stuff http://www.edtechpost.ca/readings/Ursula%20Goodenough-%20The%20Sacred%20Emergence%20of%20Nature.pdf ?Â
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