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141 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   asked this question:

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141 months ago

   wrote:

turning it into a biological emergence force

My comment:

My reference = Petit Robert dictionary: emergence au sens biologique: "apparition d'un organe nouveau ou de propriétés nouvelles d'ordre supérieur". "La" in the text must refer to ingénierie écologique.

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141 months ago

   wrote:

the whole translation is as follows: by harnessing courses and (thus?) turning itself into a biological emergence force. Maybe the author should have written "se" instead of "la".

141 months ago

   wrote:

Ps As harness does not ideally pair with courses, why not steer courses?

141 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

Hmmm. Taking all the comments into consideration, it seems I'm not the only one to not get the contextual sense of this. However this seems to be the nearest so I'm rating this one. Thanks for your input everyone!

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141 months ago

   wrote:

promoting forces of emergence

141 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

give/giving it emergent force

My comment:

Ecological engineering is a means of intervention to encapsulate direction and give it emergent force

emergent force: strong new strength as occurs in nature in Spring perhaps.

It's sort of pulling it all together and empowering it.

Just my idea.

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141 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

Emergence has nothing to do with the renewal of nature in spring, but with the evolution of species (not only animals or man, but the whole biosphere) with genetic alterations. For instance, MGO's (though they have been created for industrial, and not ecolgical purposes) are an emergence of the original cereals or other plants, but not necessarily for the better.

141 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

There's a painting by Valerie Nunes called "Emergence du printemps". emerge (v.) 1560s, from Middle French émerger, from Latin emergere "rise out or up, bring forth, bring to light," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + mergere "to dip, sink" (see merge). The notion is of rising from a liquid by virtue of buoyancy. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=emerge I agree "Le grand dictionnaire" gives "levée" for the germination of seeds etc.

141 months ago

martynback   wrote:

????

My comment:

There's a problem with the sentence, it's not grammatical. Should possibly be "en leur rendant..." - what does "la" mean? Giving them [the trajectories] back the strength they need to emerge? I'm just throwing out ideas here - no idea what it means.

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141 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

I understand your puzzled reaction. Real great scientists (like Hubert Reeves or Stephen Hawking ) know how to explain things plainly and clearly without hiding themselves behind such esoteric jargon. Fancy listening to a lecture given by this author?