[FRIAM] Rosen, Life Itself - in context

[glen e. p. ropella]

Phil Henshaw wrote:
> You say math can jump in and out of context with 'meta-math', "a mechanistic
> method for "jumping out" of the context of any given mechanism into its
> entailing context."    If you have a complete mathematical representation of
> a button, how would you derive a representation of a button hole from it?

That's a trick question.  You cannot have a complete math representation 
of a button without also having a complete math representation of a 
button hole.  So, the representation of the button hole would depend 
almost entirely on the representation of the button.

Note that you didn't say "plastic disk with 4 holes and a dimple in the 
middle" ... you said "button", which directly implies the functions in 
which a "button" participates, which is what requires the representation 
of the "button hole."

Oh how we reductionists long for a teleology free language! [grin]

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