Re: self-producing

Jeff Prideaux (JPRIDEAUX@GEMS.VCU.EDU)
Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:23:47 -0400

I like Onar's statement:
> ...The extension from set theory to hyperset theory greatly
> resembles the extension from Reals to Imaginaries. Both set theory and Real
> algebra have a "black hole" in them. In set theory this is the paradox, in the
> Reals this is the squareroot of negative numbers. Today Complex algebra has
> numerous applications, and so will Hyperset theory have too.

Onar also says:
> Autopoiesis from nothing is probably close to impossible. It has to take an
> intermediate step into dissipative self-organization. (Autopoiesis is a
> special kind of dissipative structure). Whether we can make it happen over
> again is an open question.

Are there any good examples (or good candidates) of self-organizing disipative
structures that might be a stepping stone to autopoiesis?

Would conventional examples of self-organizing dissipative structures include
things like tornados, hurricanes, the Benard cell, a flame, etc... ?

Jeff Prideaux