User talk:Claus Emmeche

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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. The article you created at Biosemiotics appears to be copied from http://www.library.utoronto.ca/see/pages/biosemioticsdef.html. Unless you are the author of the original information and you are able to release it under the GFDL then the page will need to be deleted. Please see Wikipedia:Copyrights for further information. Even if this is a copyright violation, we would still welcome any original contributions from you. See the instructions on how to edit a page for more info. Thanks. Angela. 23:22, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hey! Are you the Claus Emmeche? How cool...anyway, I just wanted to say hi, and that I greatly admire your work, and I actually created you a Wikipedia page (just today) because I feel you are a notable researcher. I first came across your work when I read the compilation book downward causation. What motivated me to add your page was a conversation I had with a philosophy Ph.D. student here at Yale who felt that reductionist views were over-represented and often mis-used within the world of philosophy...I myself have felt the same within the real of science and have been editing wikipedia to get more of the alternatives out there. I am extremely interested in studying downward causation and finding ways of studying complex systems other than the traditional reductionist approaches, and I am finding it is very difficult, sometimes even taboo, to pursue such work within academia. Cazort 00:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cazort, what a nice surprise - thanks for your interest and attention, I am always glad to meet people who could use some of my work. Thanks indeed for the article about me, I don't think I need to edit or modify it. I share your experience regarding philosopher's modes of representing science as overtly reductionist, forgetting about complexity thinking and the roles of such concepts as emergence and other forms of causation than effective causation. — I have been away nong time just coming back to the internet and wikipedia Claus Emmeche 5 February 2008.