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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; allmendream; LeGrande; xzins; metmom; TXnMA; hosepipe; CottShop; MHGinTN; ..
And yet the Newtonian Paradigm proffers no help whatsoever in the small matter of "closing the circle."

Closing the circle would be like perpetual motion, it is disallowed. Energy comes from the Sun and 'Enzymes' come from the environment. A good example would be that ATP cycle.

1,123 posted on 06/30/2009 4:08:59 PM PDT by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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Closing the circle would be like perpetual motion, it is disallowed.

It is disallowed by the Newtonian Paradigm. But in the Newtonian Paradigm, everything is assumed to be a mechanism, a "simple" closed system. The type of closure involved in what Rosen is doing is a logical closure that does two things: (1) It obviates problems of infinite regress; (2) it helps to elucidate how living systems instantiate causal entailments beyond those available to mechanisms and machines.

Anyhoot, Rosen has written a couple of enormously powerful books, potential "game changers." I suspect you would find his ideas of great interest LeGrande.

1,144 posted on 07/01/2009 2:49:31 PM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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