dmb: > That's the sense in which the organic level overcomes gravity. Growth is > obviously different from entropy and flight is conspicuously distinguishable > from falling. Life overcomes the limits of inorganic forces in this way. Life > adds a new, less law-like set of processes to the world. It's really that > simple. There is nothing weird about such obvious claims.
Totally. The inorganic forces are the primary "adverse forces" in my definition of the biological level. Eventually there are adverse forces provided by other life forms. The persistence of the pattern against adverse forces is the defining quality of life. That's not to say that gravity is always adverse to an organism's acute situation, but that an organism must work with or against gravity as appropriate dynamically, not just always succumb to it. Andy Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
