Re: [Fis] replying to Kevin and to Joseph

2010-10-02 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Guy -- This is a key idea. 'Mediation' refers to the transformation / transduction of signals at a boundary (in general it refers to no direct transfer across boundaries). In the case before us, that boundary is between systems that exist / function at different scales. Note, then, that a photon

[Fis] replying to Kevin and to Joseph

2010-10-01 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Replying to Kevin -- On Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Kevin Kirby ki...@nku.edu wrote: -snip- On flows across scales, this itself need not be mysterious. Take a single photon hitting a rhodopsin molecule in the retina of a vertebrate then [...long chain here...] triggering a