Replying to LO26403 --
Dear Organlearners,
Gavin Ritz <garritz@xtra.co.nz> writes:
>That is a very good question, every process has a structure,
>invisible or visible, e.g. psychological process-structure is
>invisible and economic process -structure is visible. The structure
>(the best definition I can find is from Maturana) denotes the
>components and relations that actually constitute a particular
>unity (whole) and makes its organization real.
Greetings dear Gavin,
I link to this contribution of yours because once again I seem to be
derillious.
I am sure that somewhere you wrote that you was studying Leibniz and his
concept of monads. But I could not find it despite a lot of searching.
Leibniz's concept of monads is perhaps the most mystic among philosophical
literature. On the one hand, he seems to articulate with it what we will
today recognise as wholeness. But on the other hand, he seems to articalte
with it what we will today recognise as "conservation".
He began to formulate his concept of "monads" after he became aware that
Newton's mechanical force (which we today measure with the unit 'newton')
is a "dead force". He subsequently transformed it into his "live-force" by
multiplying "dead force with distance". In other words, Leibniz's "live
force" was nothing else than what we will today call "work" or "energy in
flow" (and which we will measure with the unit 'joule' = 'newton'.'meter')
I think that his awareness to "life force" and thus energy brought him to
the idea of "monads" resisting any probing of them. He saw these monads as
"isolated systems"
Obviously, in his days nobody had even heard of entropy. Thus we cannot
expect from him to have created the idea of an object having the
complementary dual of "impenetrable monad" (i.e. indestructable energy as
content) and "forever changing form" (i.e. endlessly changing entropy
giving rise to form).
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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