Re: enzymes and instructions
Jeff Prideaux (JPRIDEAUX@GEMS.VCU.EDU)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:00:40 -0400
Bruce E. writes:
>...I think that for life to start one
>enzyme/instruction (however special) is probably not enough - a whole system
>needs to have to come into being. This is necessary for the rest of the
>enzymes/parts/instructions to provide a sufficiently rich (and new) context
>for each part, so that they all have meaning within that mutual context. The
>change in context is important, merely one chemical changing within
>the old context is probably insufficient.
I am personally very interesting in exploring this change in context.
This seems to be the aspect that is not amenable to the Cartesian/dual
logic world view. How does a system undergo a change in context?
What extra first principle do we need to include (or remove) from our
world view? Could multiple contexts always be implicit in all of material
nature, but they only become manifest in certain types of organization?
Is there a consensus on the second-order cybernetic ideas?
Jeff Prideaux