permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Someone in another forum mentioned "intelligent automata" and I remembered 
hearing about
Stephen Wolfram's cellular automata theory. The Wikipedia entry for this 
contains suggestions that
this system may accurately describe natural processes throughout the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata
This may then have some bearing, though very remote, to permaculture 
relationships and guilds. A while back
I thought a lot about heirarchies of relationships in a natural system on a 
piece of land,
or 100 square feet, for that matter; the implications that the most basic, 
elementary ecological relationships
in a system have for the whole system and for contiguous systems. The 
language used by microorganisms,
invertebrates, insects, mammals and plants to communicate consisting of chemical, electrical, light, sound, pH, moisture 
and nutrient signals create complex relationships between the elements of any given natural system. This must play a 
large part in determining the biodiversity, robustness and overall health of any given site. Taking an inventory of
the components of such systems and all observable site features could be helpful to a permaculture designer when 
involved in site restoration as well as site development with increased diversity and production capability in mind.

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Venaura Farm
lfl@intrex.net
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http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech