[MD] Levels in electronic computers

[Andy Skelton]

dmb:
> That's the sense in which the organic level overcomes gravity. Growth is obviously different from entropy and flight is conspicuously distinguishable from falling. Life overcomes the limits of inorganic forces in this way. Life adds a new, less law-like set of processes to the world. It's really that simple. There is nothing weird about such obvious claims.

Totally. The inorganic forces are the primary "adverse forces" in my
definition of the biological level. Eventually there are adverse
forces provided by other life forms. The persistence of the pattern
against adverse forces is the defining quality of life. That's not to
say that gravity is always adverse to an organism's acute situation,
but that an organism must work with or against gravity as appropriate
dynamically, not just always succumb to it.

Andy