-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Phil Henshaw on 01/08/2008 11:14 AM: > I thought the implication was that the organization of life is an > inherently ill-posed question from an observer's perspective. To me > that either means you accept 'bad answers' or 'better and better > answers', and the difference is methodological.
Sure, if by "ill-posed" you mean "our formalisms can't handle the truth". If you must use a binary categorization of accepting bad answers or better and better answers, then RR's work would fall into the latter category. And he was trying to help us rigorously determine if and how our formalisms are inadequate.... i.e. if we get to the point where we can't accept the poor expressiveness of our formalisms, then what do we do? Well, develop a more powerful formalism ... hence all that hoo-ha about category theory in "Life Itself". - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. -- Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHg9pCZeB+vOTnLkoRAkuaAKC92EpmCOuX7YGG03aPOaAC+h1GawCgtsq9 Z1ggeFcamjQAM3cwKLxElPo= =CQXD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
