Further notes about the morphostasis concept – split files

(13) The backdrop for morphostasis

Morphostasis is "painted" on a (very) "fluid" backdrop that allows the persistence of patterns and their form whilst more fundamental elements, that "create" this form, "flow" through it.

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3. Cells survive longer than their constituent internal components (autophagy).
4. Animals survive longer than than their individual, constituent cells (apoptosis, necrosis, regeneration – what I have called morphostasis).
5. Species survive longer than their individual, constituent animals ("death and taxes are the only certainties in life").
6. Life survives longer than its individual, constituent species (species extinction).
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I have deliberately left (1), (2) and (7) "Blank" because we can add some conjectural extras at these points:

(1) The standing waves that constitute individual particles that make up matter, planets and the biosphere "persist" longer than the evanescent electromagnetic waves that are passing through them. They create an illusion of directional time and considerable permanence

(2) Internal cell components persist (in a formed construction or organelles and cytoplasm) longer than the atoms that pass through these intracellular constructs.

(7) Information and organisation (order) could, potentially, outlive life (as we know it) and persist longer than the collective intelligences that have nurtured them into existence (an emergent phenomenon).