Re: Maximally constrained

[Judith Rosen <***>]

> (HP): How does this new subject alter Rosen's statement that cells are at
least maximally constrained physical system? That is the only statement I
have a problem with.>

As I said before, there is a radical difference between a "maximally
constrained system" and a "maximally non-holonomically constrained system".
Non-holonomic means context dependent. Context dependency doesn't specify
what context we're talking about, it simply implies critical linkages. The
context could be anything from ambient temperatures (meaning temperature of
the external environment) to an injury causing severe blood loss. Context
might refer to things happening in "real time" or it might refer to aspects
of the "internal predictive system"... or it might refer to time itself. All
of these things act as constraints on organism behavior. However, many of
these things give organisms far more "degrees of freedom" than a system that
is quided by holonomic (unchanging regardless of context) constraints or one
that doesn't react to anything at all (the theoretical "unconstrained
system").

Judith