All,
Well, I 'm off the M.I.B., for the summer. Which means, only, that I wont be
able to attend the Friday Prayer Meetings of the Mother Church for for the next
three months. [sigh] Take good notes, everybody, and keep that copy of
Endless Forms Most Beautiful circulating.
I WILL be able and ready and willing to talk about important stuff. I
particularly want to go back to Schroedinger, which I sort of punted the first
time around. Read in the context of Caroll's Endless Forms, Shroedinger seems
so prescient. Shroedinger wonders how life, composed as it is of the itsy
bitsy, is able to maintain itself in the face of heat motion. Caroll points
out that, not only has life carried on in the fact of heat motion, but that the
precisely the same amino acid sequences have been around in living things for
up to a billion years. In a way, the genome is about the most stable thing we
got going. How could this be? Answer: "Life is an aperiodic crystal. " I
want everybody's imput on all of this.
The first step, of course, is to make sure i have read Schroedinger correctly.
So when I next open up my computer amidst the dank horrors of the M.I.B., it
will be to put before you some of the passages of Schroedinger for exigesis '
Otherwise, have a wonderful summer.
nick (};-|)
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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