On 11 June, 02:32, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/10/2010 12:10 PM, Pat wrote:> You're not thinking of 'Parthenogenesis' > are you? > > Good try, I found that word once while browsing words including genesis. > Had to dig this out of my February history (someone should improve that > aspect of Firefox BTW), the word I was looking for is Autopoiesis. Was > not in my Princeton WordNet dictionary... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis >
Yeah, good word. If my assertion is correct and energy IS the 'stuff of God', then this universe could easily be described as autopoietic, simply because all 'organisation' found in the universe derives from energy and there seems to be no other substance that organises it. To coin a new word derived from autopoiesis that describes a system in which everything is created by a single underlying, self-organising substance, I suggest: Panautopoiesis. > I happened upon it here for the > curious:http://www.holosforum.org/v5n2/voss.html
