----- Original Message -----
From: "Andres Valloud" <sqrmax at prodigy.net>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Leibniz & Leibnitz & Brian Smith

[snip]
>
> Sometimes I wonder what would happen if somebody came up with Message
> Oriented Quantum Mechanics, Message Oriented Physics or Message Oriented
> Genetics...
>
> Andres.

If I try to explain to someone the idea of objects and messages, 
they find it very difficult and abstract:
Then I do the body analogy (Ivan Tomek?)

In the beginning you  have(to be honoust your wife has) one cel.
That cell creates daughtercells, these daughters inherit behavior.
they get daughters of their own, etc.
they also get more and more specialised:
in behavior, in structure & in information handling.
Here normally stops my analogy.
But...
We do not know what really triggers this specialism: biochemical messages?
(or.. gravity?... relativ location?) 
Yes, I know, in the cells there is DNA with all the building-information,
but that still does not answer the question why one cell ends-up in the
brain,
and another one as slave in the digestive system.

(I failed in medicine, so I am not an expert  in this.)