Re: (Fwd) Re: comments on whether "self-reproducing" is a subset
Jeff Prideaux (JPRIDEAUX@GEMS.VCU.EDU)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 09:17:26 -0400
I'd be interested in hearing Onar's (and others) ideas on the best
terms to use to describe the categories (sets) of potential systems
Hans Cees and I have been discussing. The goal should be to have
a sufficient vocabulary to be able to succinctly express the
various conceptual systems (and allowing for the verbal expression
of any type of system regardless of whether it actually exists in
the real world)...(for we will need to be able to refer to a
potential system in argueing for either it existence or non-
existence...) And of course, the vocabulary should be as
linguistically concervative as possible (retaining previously used
terms and meanings where possible)...
Some of the terms currently being used are the following
(I added some)
replicating
self-replicating
other-repicating
producing
self-producing
other-producing
reproducing
self-reporducing
other-reproducing
referential
self-referential
other-referential
organizing
self-organizing
other-organizing
constructing (from parts)
self-consructing (from parts)
other-constructing (from parts)
.
.
.
Jeff Prideaux