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Hey Jude,
You wrote...
In other words, the kind of functional capability required
for repair is almost the same required for reproduction). Repair is a capability
for maintenance of, and building/rebuilding, aspects of the organization itself.
Metabolism cannot exist without repair in a living system and vice
versa.
Alright, see when you say this I can almost wrap my
mind around it. I can't really visualize the life cycle of sexual,
multi-cellular eukaryote, far too mush entailment you see. So when you say
this I'm picturing a prokaryote alive through a microscope. I can imagine
three "states" of growth: diminishing, breaking even, and growing. If the
cell is growing, at some point (by forces external, internal or both) the
cell snaps in two. Voila! Reproduction. The breaking even
"state" is where repair is precisely matching degradation. Actual growth
and reproduction is repair with extra metabolic oomph behind it.
How does all that groove (commute)?
David
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