Re: old discussion

dear Allan,

>It certainly seems that issues about information in "general-evolution",
>self-organizing systems, and the like fall into the "generative" category;
>while morphology and structuralist descriptions in general (from phenomenology
>on out) are "constitutive". Biological processes in general may start out
>constitutive, but upon close examination turn out the be generative, as may the
>universe itself, and consciousness (or at least the mind).
>
>Allan

Complete agreement. However, when talking about the physical universe, this
seems to imply a conflict with the "flat" type of explanation that physics
provides, and particularly with the core of the Three Mechanics. Perhaps
the open issues of contemporary physics (measurement, gravity, time flow,
Second Law...) could be related to the dismissal of generative and
communicational aspects. In this regard, the partially contradictory
ontology of subatomic physics looks quite intriguing.

Pedro

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Received on Mon Oct 18 11:30:32 1999