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From: "Peter Pflaum" <pflaump@msn.com>

SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump

RE: A matter of perspective;

We were discussing the Internet as a new life form.

Where there is life, there can be sudden change, there is growing
order out of chaos, there are more complex inter-relationships
and effective use of the environment for energy, reproduction and
the biological systems that can run up hill.

Matter is only a temporary form of information, energy and matter
are forces in some organized shape or form before they becomes
disorganized and random again. From a random nothing there was a
"big bang" and the system has been using this energy to organize
itself, expand and run, until it runs down again. Life forms take
shape on the back of this free energy - from bacteria, plants and
on up the food chain. The problem is we exist at the top of the
chain and have a hard time with prospective - seeing the forest
for the trees.

Niles Eldredge along with Stephen Jay Gould describe the history
of life on this planet as evolving with "Punctuated Equilibrium".
Long periods of boredom with sudden extinction's and bursts of
tumult and change.

Rather than the Darwinian smooth steady progress from simple to
complex, driven by shifts in the central tendency of populations,
characterized by the survival of the best adapted; there are
quanta changes that intensify elimination and creation. The
survival of the fittest is greatly augmented by random elections
and chance. Species; happen, then form a gene pool we call a life
form. The matter of perspective is when lost in the forest to
have more than a view of trees. Life is organic collectives
rather than creatures in-side their own skin.

Charles Tart, In Waking Up, overcoming the obstacles to human
potential, to functional families, to organization learning, to
better schools, communities, politics, religion and life is
seeing beyond our own skin, raising the level of awareness. This
is what science and religion and education is all about.

The earth does revolve around the sun in a expanding Universe of
12 billion light years, the Earth is 4 - 5 billion years old,
life for 3 + billion but nothing much happened until 500 million
years ago, then 350 million there was a big bust of life forms,
most of which died out in the Permian extinction ( 245 million ),
then end of the dinosaurs ( 65 million ), humans of some type 2 +
million or more, modern type only about 25,000. There were a 1/2
billion people in ancient times, one billion by 1650, the next
billion about when my mother was born, the next when I was born (
about 35 years later ), four billion about 1960's, five in the
80's, 6 now, so from 4 million years, to 300 years, to 30 years,
to 20 years per billion and we now add more than a billion each
decade - a new Mexico each year: ( and they all want to drive) it
took a million years to lay down the fossil fuel we use each day.
We need to have more prospective.

Evolutionist make no reference to the social-biology of Edward
Wilson's multi-member colonies and synergy of collectives but the
image emerges of genes as the driving force in the complex
patterns of life. Since the survival of the species is a
collective, ecological issue, individual superiority is not very
important relative to the species adaptation to it's energy
sources, ( food, water and heat ) and changes in the environment.

James Lovelock in The Ages of Gaia, uses the laws to
thermodynamic to set the scene.  Molecular biology is an
information processing systems, evolutionary biology is the
nature of creatures and their connections with information, and
the physics which explains everything. The first law of
thermodynamics is the conservation of matter and energy. Nothing
comes from nothing and nothing goes nowhere. The second law is
dis-symmetry, hot objects cool but cold object never
spontaneously become hot, water does not run up hill. Life is a
process of collecting energy for the temporary reason of
survival, having fun and reproduction. Edwin Schrodinger little
book on " What is Life"  looks at "aperiodic crystals" that move
upstream against the flow of time. Life is improbability low
entropy. Claude Shannon information theory is that there is a
loss of data but interference, noise never becomes meaning. Life
is dependent on the use of external energy can be described in
John Von Neumann mathematical model of entropy.

So the Internet is a life form and a form of intelligent
information. A complex crystal. Maybe it can help us understand
the general theory of everything - physics, it's daughter
chemistry, it's complex cousin biology, and evolution of the
universe and our place in it. A general field theory must be made
by more than one mind, machine, or time and place. It takes
synergy.

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