(Woops! I just answered the discussion in class questions, instead of homework questions-well, I will leave it because it is applicable and I like the randomness of it!)
Can we propose a definition for "living system"?
Sure we can propose one but I believe we are still trying to figure out what it all means?
Recently, I learned that a transplanted heart can be kept, ALIVE, by an oxygen supply, nutrients and blood while in transport to a heart transplant patient. This idea that the heart is beating fascinated and confused me. Is it alive still out side of its original body? It is hard to define sometimes as our technology makes possible thing that would not be found in nature?! i.e. a bear does not put a heart in a box with a separate technological external living apparatus. So... well, I guess we can try define a "living system" but it will inevitably be irrelevant in near the future. Our technology is harvesting and creating new tissue from stem cells etc... it is living once harvested and applied to another living organism? I think we must re shape and bring in ethics to these poor new introduced living organisms, that I would call freaks of nature.
Just how tenuous is our existence?
I think humanity is destroying the natural order on earth-We are a very stupid species-despite our brilliance because we disregard the inter connectedness of us/ humans, to all!
Our existence and the existence of all mammals is very tenuous. Maybe that is the natural order? Maybe certain insects i.e. roaches that are highly adaptable can be the new 'imperial species'. I do think we have tipped the pendulum and we can change things towards more balance but it would take a greater field of consciousness to reign over the masses..... its a possiblity as well but I am not holding my breathe.
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On your comment that Humanity is destroying the natural order....we (humans) are part of the natural order. The definition of natural order is not the order that existed before humans. Maybe the natural order is influencing humans more than humans are influencing natural order. I realize that this view is contra to the popularized Global Warming warning. There will come a time when nature corrects itself independent of science/politics/economics/etc....its much smarter than we are.
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