Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Steps to a theory of reference & significance] Terry Deacon

2015-01-09 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Hi Guy, Yes. Clearly self-organized dissipative processes can be blocked from completely dissipating or else autogenesis could not be possible. The key point is this: self-organized dissipative systems like tornados, growing snow crystals, or Benárd convection cells do not involve any dynamical fe

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Steps to a theory of reference & significance] Terry Deacon

2015-01-09 Thread Guy A Hoelzer
Hi Terry, I have a question about your ‘PS’. I think of MEP as being constrained by potentials and a limited set of material opportunities (the adjacent possibilities). I think of it as a thermodynamic version of natural selection in which some alternative states are thermodynamically favored

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: Steps to a theory of reference & significance] Terry Deacon

2015-01-09 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Message from Terry Deacon Original Message Subject:Re: [Fis] Steps to a theory of reference & significance Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 03:32:22 +0100 From: Terrence W. DEACON To: Pedro C. Marijuan References: <54ad3798.7060...@aragon.es> <54ae7ca4.9080...@aragon.