mddm (2): learned english dog

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 30 22:06:24 CDT 2001


Up, down.  Remember the three letters that "dog" changes to.

>From: Bandwraith at aol.com
>Even more refreshing is the reassurance by the dog that he is beyond 
>control, in fact, that he must run free. In short, the dog seems to be an 
>example of downward causation, as opposed to the reductionist paradigm of 
>upward causation, emblematic of the age of reason. Causaton versus 
>emergentism (connectionism, etc.)- it seems to add up (or boil down) once 
>again, as so often in Pynchon, to a matter of control.


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