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Emergent Evolution. BY general consent we live in a world in which there seems to be an orderly passage of events. That orderly passage of events, in so far as something new comes on to the scene of Nature, is what I here mean by evolution. If nothing really new emerges—if there be only permutations of what was pre-existent (permutations predictable in advance by some Laplacean calculator)—then, so far, there is no evolution, though there may be progress through survival and spread, on one hand, and elimination on the Other. Under Nature is to be included the plan, expressive of natural law, on which all events (including mental events) run their course.
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MORGAN, C. Consciousness and the Unconscious1. Nature 108, 213–217 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108213a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108213a0