No self-producing internal reaction network that also produces its own boundary
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Replying to @evantthompson
oh oh but it does. hurricane has a boundary.
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Replying to @normonics
The boundary is not synthesized through molecular self-production as in a cell.
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Replying to @evantthompson
if you have to recourse to substance (reduction) rather than organization I'm not convinced. will think more on this. thanks
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Replying to @normonics
2/2 Autopoiesis is far more demanding than just dissipative/self-organizing
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Replying to @evantthompson
sure, may things transiently self-organize w/o forming closed network of 'enabling' relations. I will look at your book
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Replying to @normonics @evantthompson
my Q, prior to reading, would be, if hurricane doesn't make itself, what makes it?
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Replying to @normonics
It self-organizes, but it doesn't chemically synthesize itself, as any and all living cells do
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Replying to @evantthompson
I agree with you here! (But you seemed to contradict this in comment above)pic.twitter.com/654tM9qqID
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Replying to @normonics @evantthompson
Re: purposiveness, do you have any remarks on Robert Rosen's work?
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I discuss Rosen in Mind in Life, pp. 141-44, 238-39
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