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John - exactly, I fully agree - and nicely said. AND in addition,
all these processes are semiosic and involve Mind.
Edwina
On Sun 18/02/18 10:24 AM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent:
On 2/18/2018 7:40 AM, Stephen Jarosek wrote:
> As far as the silicon molecule is concerned, the stone has no
context
> that is relevant to it. The silicon molecule receives no cue from
the
> stone as to what its properties should be.
That is not true. A silicon atom behaves in very different ways in
different molecules. In minerals, it is in some molecule, such as
silicon dioxide. But SiO2 may combine in more complex molecules,
such as aluminum silicate. And those molecules are affected by the
crystals, glasses, and surface interactions that affect the rock as
a whole. Heat, pressure, tension, torsion, and chemical processes
are transmitted to, from, and through every molecule in the rock.
> The stone is not a system, but an agglomeration of disconnected
minerals.
No!!! The concept of a system is just an abstraction from artifacts
that humans design. For inorganic matter, even a single rock is a
complex system. Weather, volcanoes, earthquakes, stars, galaxies,
supernovas, black holes, and the Big Bang are far more complex.
For organic matter, the processes are even complex and organized
than
any human can conceive.
And there is a continuum: Some inorganic processes somehow evolved
into those organic processes. The inorganic processes that generate
the earth's weather are extremely complex. And the weather affects
and is affected by all the organic processes on earth. And the
earth
is just one insignificant rocky planet in a run-of-the-mill galaxy
in one corner of an immensely complex cosmos.
John
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