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            %COMPETING COHERENT INTEGRATIVE SYSTEMS 870523

     Disintegrative systems do not survive for long.

     To survive an organism must be internally integrative
and  draw  upon resources outside of itself  to  integrate
them  into  itself  according  to  its  internal  coherent
principles.    In  doing so an organism  breaks  down  the
organization of the resources drawn upon, and  reorganizes
them  to  meet  its own needs for internal  coherence  and
integrity in its own way of being itself with integrity.

     To  survive an organism must draw upon  the  existing
degree  of  organization of the resources  upon  which  it
draws.    Reducing them to high levels of entropy does not
serve to promote survival,  except as the  consequence  of
drawing  upon available energy present in the  high  level
organization.

     An  organism may draw upon highly organized resources
as  a  source  of energy and/or as a source  of  organized
resources  to  be used as building  materials.    Entropic
resources  do not serve well as building materials in  the
absence   of  generous  supplies  of  concentrated  energy
available in other highly organized resources.

     The  integration  of  new  structures  thus  is  made
possible  by drawing upon organized raw materials and upon
sources of concentrated available energy.

                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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