Life as overcoming
(1) A different organicist tradition to that of Kant, Claude Bernard, Varela or Rosen!
(2) As an extension of this paradigm, there is obviously another conception of operational closure!
Why not try to build it better?
"Und dies Geheimnis redete das Leben selber zu mir: "Siehe", sprach es, "ich bin das, was sich immer selber überwinden muss".
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, 2 , "von der Selbst-Überwindung".
"We must not forget that the force which evolves through the organised world is a limited force, which always seeks to surpass itself, and always remains inadequate to the work it tends to produce".
Henri Bergson, L'évolution créatrice, 1907, ch 2.
"What characterises health is the possibility of going beyond the norm that defines the momentary normal, the possibility of tolerating infringements of the usual norm and of instituting new norms in new situations".
Georges Canguilhem, Le normal et le pathologique, 1963, p 130.
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