[MD] Levels in electronic computers

[John Carl]

One out of six Dave?  We're gonna have to dump you down to pre-school.



On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM, David Thomas <combinedefforts at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> On 7/15/10 2:17 PM, "Andy Skelton" <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The plant pattern is a good example of an organism that can persist as
> > a singleton, a loner.
>
> Huh?
> I'm not an expert in biology but I've always heard that all life is
> dependent on close symbiotic relationships with other life.
>
> Why am I spending all this time for composting and mulching my garden if it
> is not to make a good environment for the little dirt critters that are
> necessary for that "lone" eggplant (out of six I started with) to survive?
>
> In a recent article in Smithsonian  a microbiologist says, "We are only 10%
> human" in that by body mass we are nearly 90% bacteria of one form or
> another.
>
> Just wondering?
>
> Dave
>
>
Check it out:  I like this guy who says science can't be value free:

*Erich Jantsch* (1929–1980) was an Austrian astrophysicist.

In the mid-1960s his increasing concern regarding the future led him to
study forecasting techniques. He does not believe forecasting or science can
be neutral.

Jantsch's Gauthier Lectures in System Science given in May 1979 at the
University of California in Berkely became the basis for his book *The
Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging
Paradigm of Evolution*, published by Pergamon Press in 1980 as part of the
System Science and World Order Library edited by Ervin László. The book
deals with self-organization as a unifying evolutionary paradigm that
incorporates cosmology, biology, sociology, psychology, and consciousness.
Jantsch is inspired by and draws on the work of Ilya Prigogine concerning
dissipative structures and nonequilibrium states.

Now out of print for many years, *The Self-organizing Universe* has been
influential among interdisciplinary proponents of biomimicry alternatives to
understanding science like holism, co-evolution, and self-organization. It
was extensively cited in Ken Wilber<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber>'s
integral philosophy book *Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of
Evolution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex,_Ecology,_Spirituality>*.