tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post6568767245754348989..comments2024-03-27T18:45:16.950-07:00Comments on Fickle Ears: [sc]airquotes (vii)—The Challenge and Pretense of Conceptual ArtStefan Kachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-45904464690377849912021-10-22T21:04:59.694-07:002021-10-22T21:04:59.694-07:00E.O. Wilson
Consilience
(1998)
"Consilience ...E.O. Wilson<br />Consilience<br />(1998)<br /><br /><i>"Consilience among the disciplines grows more smoothly from the top down as more links are laid in place, from the most specific of entities, such as the brain of Amaringo </i>[the tribesman]<i>, all the way to the most general, his atoms and molecules. But to establish consilience the other way, from general to more specific, is vastly more difficult. In short, it is far easier to analyze Amaringo than to synthesize him.<br /><br />"The greatest obstacle to consilience by synthesis, the approach often loosely called holism, is the exponential increase in complexity encountered during the upward progress through levels of organization."</i><br />(p. 83)Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.com