Since I asked this question elsewhere, it seems appropriate that I answer it here, so I will not be accused of answering my own questions too much. However, if the questions were better on Quora, one would not have to ask cogent questions in order to give cogent answers. Be that as it may . [...]

Namesake appears to have what Quora lacks. I have been complaining bitterly about several deficiencies in Quora for some time now. The first one was that questions have not context within any problematic. The second one was the seeming arbitrary censorship which others have complained about more strongly than myself. Thirdly there is the fact [...]

The coolest animal on earth is the one furthest from Extinction, which right now seems to be humans. Of course what is not so cool is that this animal seems hell bent on wiping out all the others. Why we became so disconnected from our environment to countenance such a state of affairs is unknown. [...]

Autopoiesis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Autopoiesis&oldid=1159966 This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 199.46.200.237 (talk) at 00:17, 17 July 2003. It may differ significantly from the current revision. (diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Autopoiesis literally means “self-reproduction,” and expresses a fundamental complementarity between structure and function. The term was originally introduced byChilean biologists Francisco [...]

Emergent Design From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emergent Design means that Design of Artifacts is itself an Emergent Phenomenon. This implies that it emerges in the creative design process, rather than being a blueprint that exists eternally in the ether like the Platonic source Forms and also that the artifact that is designed has emergent [...]