Re: infinite regresses

Mark R. Chandler (CHANDLER@TCRCA.USBM.GOV)
Fri, 3 Mar 1995 16:39:07 CST


greetings, everyone.
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> What does any of this have to do with organic life?

hmmmmmmm. Don, you write very well, and i'm still wading through your
thermodynamics/med application book. i'll try this: there's life -
organic life, and what looks like inorganic life. and a relative
near term future when inorganic life will be much more obvious. i
don't mind being confused over organic or inorganic life, and
modeling/simulations with inorganic life may be as useful as any
other technology.

Why broaden the
> use of a word we've had the devil of a time defining in the first
> place.

ok. but broadening the use of a word is a useful practice - and you
can move on to a new term (like inorganic life or artificial life)
after some people point out your confusing the issue.

On the otherhand, if all material systems are alive, the
> problem goes away, I guess.

this may be true. and provide a useful way to quantify based on a
composit measurement refered to as life.

> Best wishes, Don Mikulecky
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oops. work break.

yours in haste and government downsizing,

mrc

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