Responding to "How to reverse.... LO24464"
Rick's note induced a chuckle in me:
[Host's Note: Andrew, I noticed that you distinguished learners and
lurkers. I think lurkers can certainly be learners. Readers are always
welcome here. ..Rick]
When I first saw the distinction being made by Andrew of lurkers and
learners, I had the same reaction as Rick. I also wondered at why Andrew
might be making the distinction, and came up with my own conjecture.
The distinction works for me when I think of At's Axiom, "To learn is to
create." Active participation, it seems to me, often will be conducive to
emergent learning (for both the individual and our community) in a way
lurker-learning will not. I read the distinction as an invitation to
participate.
What do you actually have in mind, Andrew?
At, in some of my no-spare time I've been grazing pretty intensively on
thermodynamics in relation to energy insufficient to sustain 1)
exponential growth dynamics in 2) complex adaptive systems. I'm still
stuck on making the connection to mitosis and meiosis. (Higher bandwidth
users may enjoy this primer on DNA at http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/ ).
Grins,
Dan Chay
[Host's Note: Dan, thanks for the pointer to the DNA lesson. ..Rick]
--"Heidi and Dan Chay" <chay@alaska.com>
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