premise: The way we use the words 'procedure' and 'process' tells us something about how theydiffer. We tend to start and stop processes. We implement procedures and commenceand complete them. We process information. We do not procedure information, but weemploy a procedure to process information. We have operational processes and theremay be operational procedures. In this context, the operational process comprises theresources, people, plant and machinery, and the operational procedure contains theinstructions on how to operate. We have process interrupts but not procedure interrupts, because processes are perceived as continuous and run until physical intervention. Inour bodies we have processes, not procedures. The reproductive process, the digestiveprocess and the respiratory process are certainly continuous and stop only when anintervention takes place. They may require human intervention in which a surgeon mayemploy procedures to effect a repair.
hypothesis: The procedures in our bodies are continuous.