Are Myths Valuable?

[DLJ]

Perhaps it's easier (but not as accurate) to call it:  The phenotypic machine's monitoring system's monitoring system's monitoring system.

You know, I'm really going to have to go back, read over your many different categories, and write them all down to try to see if I can plug them into anything which actually makes sense to me.  I'm afraid I'm trying to discuss all of this top-down while you're addressing it bottom-up.

Fair enough.

When looking at emergent stuff like 'consciousness' and 'mind' and 'knowledge', bottom-up (i.e. evolution and the laws of physics e.g. entropy) is my preferred approach. As in... what did they emerge from?

Which is kinda ironic given that the models I use (and teach) are all about intelligent design i.e. top-down.

Let me know if you have any questions.