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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPermit Miscellaneous 1986-02-25STRUCTURAL INSPECTION REPORT JoB ADDRESS ^29O N, /?4 ? 7'e OI.JNER DATE PHONE ADDRESS TENANT OR OCCUPANT TYPE OF INSPECTION:HOUS I NG OCCUPANCY COMPLAINT FIRE DAMAGE t Ii,ISPECTOR Por, Dnn* A? / {<a /r .4.yyrz.r>.,, /s Vtstzz€ f*€ oarc(?E- /r,eC ,ka/s lary71yqaR lrG q.r 7a- 3-? t --ga hoTn Gay TIME: 2;'n DATE: 2 'S t' ,r, di noT- _ Engineering _ Traffic _ Maintenance _ Bldg. Attendant J-Ff ,,/, / ?r uADDRESS OF COMPLAINT: V IOLAT I ON/COMPLA I NT: COMPLAINANT: ADDRESS OF -=U-a- a-bga,<-. cL +/-d +kz_ L*- 5t S/"a. 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Autopoietic, unlike mechanical, systems produce and maintain their orvn boundaries (plasma membranes, skin, exoskeltons, bark, etc.). Autopoietic sys- tems incessantly modulate their ionic com- position and macromolecular sequences (i.e., amino acid and nucleotide residues in their proteins and nucleic acids). Some eve,n .l: s s I i] ! : t.[ej . i.l : :'.1 d. t : apjl1,_l::' *q a u topo retrc en trty capa b-l: 91..:p,:ggyg,9i(i e., cells, organisins, cbh6iivE'gfou'p3-of organisms) is subject to iihtural sclection- fbi.rhe simple rerion that all the potential' products o"f reproductien can Jlever-sur vive. The smallest autopoietic systems, sphtirical and less than a micrometer in diameter, are bacterial cells. (Viruses, plas- mids and other replicons are too simple and small to be auiopoieric.) The la;g;af: autdboietic svsrem. lo fa. 'iritdtiibleY irf'r ,.p.td,.,ctionl ir. tn. iriodulati'8iil.r^tt irr I rhl Earth which Lovelock (1988) has riamed ' Gaia. r -.- ' For rhe purposes of this paper Gaia is defined as lhe large self-maintaining, self- producing system extending rvithin about 20 kilometers of the surface of the Earth. The Gaia hypothesis states: the surface sed- iments and troposphere o[ the Earth are activelv regulated bl' the biota (the sum of the live organisms) rvith respecr to the chemical composition of the reactive ele- ments (r.9.,H, C, N, O, S), acidity (".9.,H', OH-, COr--, HCOs-), the oxid,a_tion- reduction state and the temperature.'Gaian- regu'lation, like the physio-lqg/''tt.f iJ,' )embryo. 'is moie homeorrhetic r'than j homeostatic in that thel int'#ila-lly-6iga-, rrized svstem regulares around mqylng, rather'than fixe-d-from-the-outside, set-' points. (8.g., the values of temperature,' atmospheric gas composition and others lrround r*hich there is gaian regulation do < hange rvith time.) Gaia, a single enormous svsIcm deriving from a 3,500 million year old common ancestor is connected through time (b1' ancestry)-as Darr.'in realized- and rhrough space (bv allelochemics, atmo- spheric and oceanic currents and the like, as .\'. I. Vernadskl' I I 988] -reali,ed). The gaiarr svstem persists in the face of changes (a.g., population expansions and extinc- tion. rise and fall of sea level and so forth).-fhe tendcncv of all organisms to inject their genes into the next generation is one of these changes. The validirl, of the Gaia idea, the self- regulating biosphere, has been forcefully argued bv Lovelock (1979, l9BB). The Gaia hypothesis has e'.,en been called a "grand unified theory,''of biology; it has also been recognized as more a point-of-view than a scientific hy pothesis (Sagan, 1988). In autopoietic language, Gaia is the largest unit that displals the properties in Table l. Probably' the best rva\' [o think about Gaia is._to contemplate the assertion thal ihe atmoiohere and stxface sediments of ihe Earth i.. pr.t of t[e living system. Life does not "adapt" to a passive physico- chemical environment as most neodarrvin- ians assume, instead life actively produces and modifies its surroundings. The oxygen we breathe, the humid atmosphere inside of which rve live and the mildly alkaline ocean rvalers in rvhich rhe rvhales are bathed are not determined bv a physical universe run by mechanical "larvs." In stark con- trast to a mechanical, physics-centered ; _world, the metabo!izing biosphere is phys- 'i i,ologically sel f-con troltEa. f he breathable oxygen, the humid air and mildly alkaline oceans result lrom the grorvth and metab- olism of uncountable and alrvays changing numbers of bacteria, plants and algae which produce ox)'gen using solar energy. Water transportation is driven b1' the activities of great forests, primarily' of neotropical trees; and the neutralization o[ the acid tenden- cies of the planet is accomplished by the production o[ alkaline substances such as ammonia br ml riads o[ organisms, for example b', urination and gas release. Many other exanlples exist of gaian Earth-sur- face regulatory activities (Lovelock, 1988; Margulis and Sagan, l986a). The gaian worldvierv is an autopoietic one; the surface of this planet is alive with a connected megametabolism which leads to temperature and chemical modulation systens in r.'hich man plays a {mall and epiphenomenal part. (Afrer all, man as Homo sapietts sapietts evolved only some 40,000 years ago, long after the gaian sys- tem, which is over 3,000 million years old, rvas completely, in place.) Y J...