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From: Peter Pflaum <pflaump@msn.com>

RE: The Internet as a life form: Information; Energy and entropy
Hello: Long time no see or email. I read with great interest the new life
form article and went to your home page to read more with the links you put
to it. Fascinating. Are there other sites dealing with this? Cybernetic is
a good one I know, but this thread interests me a lot. Please check Earth
Portals if you have not been there in a while, I have a lot of new material
bulging at 17 MBs now. http://www.earthportals.com/earthportals
Thanks, Willard

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I get messages from people not on the list. Maybe they are getting
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Yes, AT&T does work if you by pass their software ( a year out of date is real
old ) and do a dial
up connection in Windows 95. SPRY also works pflaump@sprynet.com
and I will be testing WOW.

The Internet contains systems and subsystems of older and newer
forms, people, social systems, regulations, habits, institutions,
technologies; PC's, networks, software, communications systems,
modems, UNIX languages, Visual Basic C+++, OLE, telephone
systems, satellites, libraries, gophers, and hundreds of such
elements being regrouped into a ecological system call the
Internet.

What is life ? What is the purpose of life ? Well first of all to
manage entropy. Life and matter are all forms of information. We
can start with negative entropy called energy, in the form of
motion, the yin and yang of creation, motion and the need to stop
moving and come to rest. Concentrations of energy form the simple
elements starting with hydrogen, the positive forces generating a
negative balance, protons and electrons in motion. The standard
model theory of elementary particles postulated the existence of
six kinds of quarks, all of which have been experimentally
confirmed. (See note at the end)

Categories: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.

What are the building blocks of life forms ? Exploding Novas
start the creation of the library we call home-o-stasis; an
environmental life form. Life is made up of the letters and
phonemes from the simple and complex elements, sun light,
atmosphere and water that form our planet earth. Words are
organic molecules, sentences are made up of compounds, and books
are the genetic information of life in its many forms.

How is the information super-highway a life form ? Information is
patterns of order against a background of noise. The information
of living things contains the patterns of colonies, collectives,
synergy in action. Life starts with Mitochondria, entities than
can transform energy. Eukaryote, cells with nuclei, contain
Mitochondria. Information is collected into a more complex
composites.

Evolution is the results of positive and negative feedback.
Individuals survive and reproduce as parts of systems. The
collective action of organic communities reacts and changes the
environment. The unintentional responses of organic matter change
the information content. Rain forests produce rain, the
evaporation of ground water by leaves increases cloud cover and
effects weather and climate, the contents of the air and the
average temperature. Positive and negative feedback loops
sometimes escalate out of control until they collapse or reach a
dynamic punctuated equilibria.

Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:

Before the Cambrian extinction ( 450 million years ago ) there
were hundreds of basic body designs. Only a few dozen survived,
one of which was one using internal bones and tubes, becoming
fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications
protocols, the web structure, modems, and the way we connect and
how fast. The pattern is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other
body forms are possible, such as the Internet terminal.

Regulation and legislation are part of the body styles
issues.

Area two: COMMUNITIES:

Ecological communities are complex dynamic systems that have many
counter-intuitive relationships. For example, the role of the
matrical elephant in the group, provides memory, experience and
leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use of soil
minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support
predators, on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not
simply the "survival" of the fittest but how communities fit into
the complex and often unstable dynamics of whole systems.

Communities and interfaces: The food chain;
Who is eating whom in The Wild Kingdom or America today ?
Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy

Search:
AltaVista, Yahoo, and the other search engines form connections
between communities of web pages.

Message transfer: http - editors - ftp - chat -
Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.

Storage and filing:
Access, data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of
saving and finding materials.

On-line services:
CompuServe, America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time
Warner, NBC -

Nodes and Niches:
The media and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs -

Digital on Netscape Community systems that
promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other
Applications.

Area three: DYNAMICS of change:

What is done by whom and how: The history of evolutionary biology
is long periods of boredom and short periods of terror and mass
extinction's. The dynamics of change have been climate change,
invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid, and
the dynamics of communities themselves. The balance of
cooperation and competition suddenly change. There is a random or
elements of chaos like the weather.

Complex systems have counter-intuitive interactions ( Blau and
Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial dynamics,
Senge in Organizational Learning ) Star fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls,
sea turtles, have second and third and forth level repercussions
in dynamic communities.

Netscape and mosaic is an example of dynamic shifts in the
ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer systems tied to
providers is another.

NOTE:
Particles are now grouped according to the force that usually
controls their interactions. Hadrons (strong nuclear force)
include hyperons, mesons, and the neutron and proton. Leptons
(electromagnetic and weak forces) include the tau, muon,
electron, and neutrinos. Bosons (particlelike objects associated
with interactions) include the photon and the hypothetical
carriers of the weak force and of gravitation. The weak nuclear
force is evident in such radioactive or particle-decay reactions
as alpha decay (the release of a helium nucleus from an unstable
atomic nucleus).

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