Re: Inconsistency, etc.

[Howard Pattee <***>]

Judith,

We?re getting closer. With a lot of snipping for brevity, here is my response.

Judith: This internal model is apparently not adaptive at all, or else it is very "slow" 
to make adaptive changes . . . . I would call that a case of naturally occurring 
"inconsistency"-- between the natural world (reality) and the organism's internal models 
of it.

HP: I agree. That is also a normal use of inconsistent.

> H. Pattee wrote: Scientific definitions do not describe "actual properties of reality."

Judith: I will offer, for the sake of discussion, my own sense that the first two lines 
are completely counter to what I perceive to be the case. Perhaps it was also my 
"upbringing". But, what is science FOR, if not to help us understand "actual properties 
of reality"?

HP: No problem here. The meaning of ?actual? is fuzzy enough for much useless 
metaphysics. If we leave out actual, we agree.

I do claim that the need for inequivalent complementary models for adequate understanding 
of complex systems is couched in terms of what Rosen believed and expressed.

Howard