From: mark maxwell (laughingpines@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 20:32:07 BST
Hello Ian,
nothing specific here, just wanted to thank you for
clarification.
I shall add though, that Plotinus regarded rocks to be
as 'in a deep sleep'. I think he regarded living
entities to lie on a continuum between matter and
Intellect - matter is as asleep and intellect is wide
awake.
Pirsig has stated that plotinus is close to his own
view, so i think this may be significant:
All levels are alive in that they express value
patterns.
I undeserstand biologists have a tight definition of
what passes for life, but this is going to have to
change. It's got to go.
That which will replace the biologists definition of
life will be a definition based upon cybernetics i
feel, and particularly with reference to any self
organising system - material, biological, social and
Intellectual, AI and all sorts of stuff.
Now, as an MOQer, i see an opportunity to provide a
metaphysical basis for cybernetic self organising
systems, and that is a direction i think will bare
fruit.
All the best,
Mark
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