Dear Sung, lists … Hmm, I think processes, at least over QM level, are generally continuous. So I also think the transition between non-life and life is continuous (the increasing degree of autokatalysis in the space of organic compounds) - at the same time I think this process crosses a critical limit when a stable autokatalytic cycle is formed …
Best F Den 13/09/2014 kl. 18.09 skrev Sungchul Ji <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> : Frederik wrote: " . . . to say non-biological physics is semiotic is a (091314-1) bit equivalent to saying that dead matter is living beings with a zero metabolism,. . . " I agree. Do you think it is possible to define terms in such a way that "dead matter" is "continuous" with "living matter" as Peirce seems to be saying when he says that "matter is effete mind" ? With all the best. Sung
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