Ourcellves? (Identity)

by romansh ⌂ @, Tuesday, April 08, 2014, 14:59 (3643 days ago) @ GateKeeper

GK: Like the happenings in a small Paraguay town's daily operations do not influence my daily operations at the local level. But the totality of system will define our available "cells".
Depends on how well we think chaos theory describes the universe. Does a butterfly flapping its wings in Sumatra affect a future event on the Eastern Seaboard? I think this speaks to your time component.
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> GK: I see a time component in this discussion. The less we know, the more "outside of" cells it becomes. I just don't know if it is free or I just don't know enough. "Free as a bird" comes to mind. 
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I see it the other way round ... the more we understand the more outside it becomes. One of the cruelest things you can do to a person is deprive them of sensory input. Think of solitary confinemnet and taping a baby's eyes shut for some medical emergency during the important development time after birth. It is the act of getting sensory input that shapes us.
 
>GK: The words "punctuated equilibrium" also come to mind. For the most part, a steady homeostasis exists. This is a dynamic EQ, which strongly implies feedback system. Every so often something comes along as rocks the system.-I think we are actually referring to steady state and a pseudo steady state at that.


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