Spencer Heath's
Series
Spencer Heath Archive
Item 836
Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath, MacCallum advocating a sub-title for Citadel, Market & Altar and suggesting Emergent or Emerging Society.
January 7, 1955
EMERGENT VERSUS EMERGING
The distinction between evolution and development, between the forming of a new type or pattern of organization and the growth or elaboration of a pre-existing type, is indicated in the two words, evolution and development. Evolution, particularly emergent evolution, means not only the emergence of a new structural type but also of a new functional capacity. (The Webster definition of emergent is a subjective one — what is unexpected to one person may not be to another — “appearing as something novel or unpredictable in the course of an evolution.”)
Metadata
Title | Conversation - 836 |
Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
Series | Conversation |
Box number | 6:641-859 |
Document number | 836 |
Date / Year | 1955-01-07 |
Authors / Creators / Correspondents | |
Description | Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath, MacCallum advocating a sub-title for Citadel, Market & Altar and suggesting Emergent or Emerging Society |
Keywords | CM&A |