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- For a dissipative, far-from-equilibrium system to persist in time, what minimum conditions have to be satisfied?
- Stuart Kauffman mentions three closure constraints. What are they?
- What is causal closure by Matteo Mossio and Alvaro Moreno?
- How has Deacon’s thermodynamic perspective added to this?
- Can you reframe this in biosemiotic terms?
- “This autonomy is achieved through the dynamic interplay of semiotic processes that regulate energy flows, material exchanges, and information processing.” Can you unpack this for me please?
- When you say make decisions, how is this related to the work of predictive coding and the cognitive sciences?
- How does Lisa Feldman Barrett’s emotional constructive perspective and energy budgeting optimization scheme fits in here?
- How does Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s emotional sentience fit in here?
- He does this seamless integrative framework relate to pain and pleasure and hence why suffering and its alleviation?
- And how does this relate to the concepts of good and evil?
- How does McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology fit in here?
- How do the clinical concepts of symptoms and signs in disease management fit in here and how does this translate into public health concepts?
- How do the complementary interpretive germ and terrain theory be reconciled and integrated here?
- Then given this life-enhancing framework of understandings, why all of these life-degenerating trends?
- How do the innate conflicts between money-value and life-value result in emotional and cognitive and relational and ecological dissonance, and how can this be rectified?
- How can this understanding help transform our financial and economic and political and legal systems so that money-value resonates with life-value and the aforementioned are not captured and corrupted by money-valued vested interests?
- Can you give a list of possible blog article titles reflecting this integrative framework of understanding?
- Can you write a detailed article summing up all we have learnt during this discussion?
- Can you construct a vibrant image reflecting this?
- Can you reproduce the same image but without words?










