The Latest Distinction
Name of the distinction:
thing||nothing
Author:
Atlis AEBIS
Category:
All
Diagram:
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Informal Definition:
thing||nothing from the Point of View of a Living Being
A Thing, as a unity, is distinguished from Nothing by a Living Being.
This is an Instanciation of the First Distinction Pattern Extended Laws of Form (LOF). According to Francisco Varela's Principles of Biological Autonomy, this Distinction is made from the Point of View of the related Living Being. This is so regardless of whether that operation of distinction is conceptual (i.e. when a thing is defined by an observer through a process of description), or physical (i.e. when a Living Being comes through the actual networking of biochemical reactions that create a boundary - a membrane -, which constrains its distinction from a background in the physical space).
Legend:
(X = Y) ≈ (X is Y)
‘X ≈ Y’ ≈ X can be replaced by Y
@ ≈ Any Autonomous Element
X Y ≈ (X And/Or Y)
[X] ≈ (No X)
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