Re: Raising Issues

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of Judith
> Rosen
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: Raising Issues
>
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> So the question becomes "What is health?" It seems to me that this is a
> massive area. Again, the reductionist approach could be applied
> appropriately here, couldn't it. Health is different for a child
> than for an
> adult human being. It's different for a woman than for a man.
> It's different
> for a pregnant woman than for a non-pregnant woman... and so on.
>--snip--


Judith,

Yet, flipping the terminology around, so that we have "man health",
"pregnant woman health", "child health", "elephant health", "tulip health",
etc., we can view it as there being some invariant called "health". Perhaps
this invariance is, roughly speaking, that all of the system's behaviors are
operating within the range of all of its predictive models?

Regards,
Tim