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Hey John,
Now maybe I have a skewed
perspective, but in my view this was one of your better postings.
You wrote...
I wrote to her an e-mail
proposing the term for the evolution of eucaryotes from procaryotes by symbiosis: first keeping together then sharing tasks then one diffusing through the outer membrane of the other partner into it - forming a nucleus later on. As I recall (that was before my computer virus-washout) she replied that this would be a great idea to justify in detail. I did not continue the line. How would one do to justify such an idea? What
evidence would be sufficient? Surely few if any fossil
evidence remains of such a development. To me it just seems
intuitively obvious, but that is hardly grounds for acceptance by others.
But we (you and I) at least are in agreement about this.
Further you wrote...
Or even (semi?) autonomous divisions in a
corporation. Here too I seem to resonate with you. Is there
such a thing, given an organism's dependency and connectedness with it's
environment as complete "autonomy". It seems to me that there are only
degrees or kinds of semi-autonomy.
Still further...
We have to step out from the boundaries of bio-models
we are closed into. At least on this list. But John, would you have us all meander each into our
own personal politics? At least with our search for the underlying
similarity of dynamic (homologies) of living systems we might reach a strong
consensus that has some possibility of transcending our own personal
pettiness'. I've heard it said that were one stands on an issue depends
upon where one sits!
I gotta run my man, but I did enjoy this posting of
yours.
David
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