This will be a matrix featuring the people who appeared in John Brockman's book, "The Third Culture", their affiliations and a very crude take on their reactions to each other's comments in that book.

 
 
Name, label title, org concepts, works affiliations
GEORGE C. WILLIAMS
neo-darwinist
biologist

 

"Information packets"  

 

STEPHEN JAY GOULD

 

biologist "The Pattern of Life Is History"

exaption

 
RICHARD DAWKINS
neo-darwinist
biologist

 

"A Survival Machine"

memes, selfish genes

 

 

BRIAN GOODWIN 

 

theoretic biologist

 

"Biology Is Just a Dance"

structural morphology

 

 

STEVE JONES

 

biologist

 

"Why Is There So Much Genetic Diversity?"  

 

NILES ELDriDGE

 

 

 

"A Battle of Words"  

 

LYNN MARGULIS

 

biochemist

 

"Gaia Is a Tough Bitch"

eukaryotic cells 

 

 

MARVIN MINSKY
cogsci: emergent models
comp scientist "Smart Machines"  

 

ROGER SCHANK

 

 

 

"Information Is Surprises"

expectation failure. Scripts 

 

 

DANIEL C. DENNETT
neo-darwinist
philosopher

 

"Intuition Pumps"  
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY

 

psychologist

 

"The Thick Moment"

 

 

 

FRANCISCO VARELA
enactivist
 

 

"The Emergent Self'

enactivism - autopoesis/self-organization

divides cogsci into:  emergent models

cognitivism

enactivism

STEVEN PINKNER 

 

  "Language Is a Human Instinct"  

 

ROGER PENROSE

 

physicist

 

"Consciousness Invol-ves Noncomputabte Ingredients"  

 

MARTIN REES

 

 

 

"An Ensemble of Universes"  

 

ALAN GUTH

 

physicist

 

"A Universe in Your Backyard"  

 

LEE SMOLIN

 

physicist

 

"A Theory of the Whole Universe"  

 

PAUL DAVIES

 

physicist

 

"The Synthetic Path"  

 

MURRAY GELL-MANN

 

physicist

 

"Plectics"  

 

STUART KAUFFMAN

 

 

 

"Order for Free"  

 

CHRISTOPHER G. LANGTON 

 

 

 

 

Artificial Life

-comp sci, cellular automata, order and disorder

 

 

 

J. DOYNE FARMER

 

 

 

"The Second Law of Organization"  

 

W. DANIEL HILLIS

 

comp sci

 

"Close to the Singularity"  

 

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