From: Thomas Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Well, of course patterns require energy. No energy -- nothing
>>moves -- no pattern.
>
>Think of the thermostat circuit with it's built in feedback responses. The
>structure, the physical part is a furnace, a temp control, some circuitry.
>Where is the pattern. It is in the settings of the various components. If
>the settings are at 72 degrees, everything functions for human comfort. If
>the settings are a 90 degrees, everyone has major discomfort. Did the
>system change in any way? No, the pattern was changed by resetting the
>controls, same amount of energy as before in the circuitry, of course more
>energy was burned to create the second situation but that is not pattern
>energy, but the result of the pattern.
This is true. But if you run out of energy, your thermostat
doesn't do anything -- your pattern ends.
>Relying totally on what we can measure, observe, calculate is the
scientific
>model of problem solving. The changes show up in the physical, but the
>cause of the changes is not in the physical but in the pattern that the
>physical is operating within.
Physical operating within a non-physical pattern? Are you sure?
Have you ever seen it? <G>
Jay
