RE: virus: Belief and Knowledge (was: The truth about faith)

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:32:32 -0600


At 06:29 PM 9/13/97 +0100, Robin Faichney wrote:
>> David McFadzean[SMTP:david@lucifer.com] wrote:
>> I think I have discovered some hidden assumptions. I think goals and
>> purposes can be attributed to systems to the extent that are *alive*.
>>
>What's special about life? :-)

Good question! One possible answer is that life is attributed to systems
that have become sufficiently complex such that the internal information
dynamics take over the behavior from physical (mass/energy) dynamics.
Does that fit in with your theories?

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