From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 20:56:49 GMT
Dear Erin,
You wrote 8 Dec 2002 13:00:09 -0500
'I think I know the issue for me. Degenerate activity loses its "degeneracy"
connation when it looked in the framework of a paradox. ... "Life lives on
life." One life form is sustained through the destruction of another.'
You mean 'degeneration of patterns of value' in the MoQish sense (patterns
of value losing their 'latch' and falling back on a lower latch) 'loses its
negative connotation when it is viewed as part of the paradox that life
depends on killing'?
My life depends on killing vegetables and fish (I happen to be a
vegetarian). 'Life on earth', understood as the biological pattern of value
that has been recognizably the same (latched on DNA replication) for about a
billion years, depends on an endless chain of individual organisms living a
limited time and dying to feed others. So does my life depend on individual
cells dying and being replaced by others.
I see no paradox, unless you mistake the two levels of meaning of 'life'.
'Life' understood as a biological pattern of value is not the same as the
life of an individual organism. 'Life of an individual organism' understood
as a (smaller scale) biological pattern of value is not the same as the life
of one of its constituent parts.
Degeneration of patterns of value should keep its negative connotation in
the MoQ context.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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