FW: [ROSEN] Anticipation/Anticipatory

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

Forwarded on behalf of Judith Rosen. See below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Judith Rosen [mailto:***
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 2:28 PM
To: Tim Gwinn
Subject: Re: [ROSEN] Anticipation/Anticipatory


Tim; I'm still having trouble sending from this computer. Sorry to
trouble you, but could you forward this on to the list for me, please?
Judith

John (M),
I can only attempt to illuminate what confuses people about my father's
mode of expression and thought patterns. One thing I cannot do is
"defend" his scientific ideas. The work will have to do that on its
own. I am only qualified to clarify what he meant, and there-- only up
to a point. I'm not sure I've been able to do that in your case, so I
have some questions for you, based on your post:

Why do you refer to the maple tree dropping its leaves as a "disease"?

Are you still trying to understand what my father was referring to
(with the word "anticipatory"?

How can you expect to see the entire picture (the set of ideas he was
describing) with "anticipation" if you "forget about time"?

How do you define "Time" such that you feel it is expendable in any
discussion of Rosennean Complexity?

Do you really believe that Occam's Razor is the correct approach in
anything, much less "biology"?

Regards,
Judith



On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 11:01 AM, John M wrote:

> Judith,
> thanks for the time (!) and trouble you invested in explaining my
> anticipated(!) error. To answer your question:
> No, it makes no sense to me.
>>
>