david spooner

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David: Could you possibly send me a copy (paper or electronic) of your paper 'Alfred Russel Wallace's Swallowtails: Mimicry & Evolution'? Also, bibliographic info. I try to keep up as much as possible on Wallace-related materials. Thanks! --Charles H. Smith, Ph.D., Western Kentucky University charles.smith@wku.edu

Response from David Spooner to Ben Udell:
`chitinous` (so to say) 4s are zooming about the universe. They determine the structure of much of reality, thought and experimental processes. You have many that are new to me, especially in regard to that latter category, and Hyatt Carter has many more (www.hyattcarter.com). The Gell-Mann endorsement of the Helmholz-Poincaré tetradic system of discovery/experimentation is a compacted version of the philological and evolutionary cluster ova-larva-pupa-imago.

However, this latter organic process has the virtue of ultimately opening out and fusing the human species, in its long-term evolution and maturation, more profoundly with the living world of nature. {as I explain in my books from the 1995 Metaphysics to the 2005 Insect-Populated}. It draws the realm of abstract thought back towards the earth, and thereby supplements the human relation to the great apes with one to the insect world in its evolution.


Question: How would you relate (or not relate) the four-stage process of egg, larva, pupa, imago to the four-stage creative process of saturation, incubation, illumination, and verification as discussed by Murray Gell-Mann on pp. 264-265 of _The Quark and the Jaguar_? The passage can be viewed at Google Books as linked via a Google search on: each-found-a-contradiction Gell-Mann - Ben Udell, Queens, NY, USA


The possibility of the evolution of what you might want to call scienarters is very unlikely. As Edward O. Wilson wrote, each discipline, or in your terms category, jealously guards its own territory. And this is enshrined unfortunately in the modern faculties. Jeff, Oregon

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