RE: MD What is a living being?

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Hi Jonathan

> Re: the subject thread, I think we all know the
> "qualities" that make
> something alive,

I would say we all have culturally provided ideas or
perhaps a sophisticated biological definition of what
makes something alive but one of my points is that
these concepts don't necessarily carry over into the
MoQ.

> I would also like to add that "patterns" are defined
> by both static and
> dynamic quality. The "static" part is made up of the
> constraints required to
> define the pattern. The dynamic part is the
> allowable variation (all the
> non-defined part).

That is similar to one of my suggested solutions to
the 'problem'. I referred to weak patterns held
together by ambiguous preferences. I still quite like
that interpretation.

Thanks

Paul

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