Jerry, I don’t know enough about modern cell biophysics to draw a fair comparison. The thing that inspires me about Peirce is the solid, reliable axiomatic thinking that hangs together. And I’m familiar enough with the various complexity/systems/emergence and physics theories that have done the rounds to know that they haven’t delivered on their promises. sj
From: Jerry Rhee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 1 February 2016 9:29 PM To: Stephen Jarosek Cc: PEIRCE-L; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Pragmatism - atoms, molecules, entanglement Stephen and list, Can you think of any advantages to thinking about modern cell biophysics as Peircean semiotic? Wouldn’t that just create more work for biologists/physicists to learn Peircean ideas and for Peircean scholars to learn biophysics? Asking scholars to adopt alternative perspectives when existing views work well enough, and when lives are already jammed with other matters, would not be compelling unless you can offer good justifications. Best, Jerry “If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outside and troublesome intruder." ~ Carnap On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Jarosek <[email protected]> wrote: List, I stumbled upon a fascinating video clip <https://youtu.be/FzcTgrxMzZk> on the weekend. Might Peircean-biosemiotic concepts apply also to atoms and molecules? Peirce’s “mind hidebound with habits” comes to mind. But back in his day, Peirce could never have known what we now know about quantum physics and entanglement – he’d have much to say about all this were he alive today. Atoms and molecules also have to “know” very specific properties in order to make possible the astonishing complexity within a cell. Entanglement is the medium by which atoms and molecules “know” (imitate) their properties. sj ----------------------------- PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm .
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