2Oct/140
All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea | Daily Mail Online
2Oct/140
Twin Life: Sharing Mind and Body – Doc Zone
A graphic account of the emergent nature of consciousness, sense of self and identity.
1Oct/140
BBC News – Sense of smell ‘may predict lifespan’
The evidence that life (and consciousness) is an emergent phenomenon keeps piling up. Richard Dawkins talked about extended phenotypes - beaver bodies + beaver dams making beavering possible - and I think this is an excellent observation. But if the process of extending phenotypes continues and continues eventually the rationale for talking about phenotypes (and genotypes) in the first place disappears. .
Then we have a process metaphysics!