Re: virus: New Virus Page
Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:35:33 +0000
In message <0ad7e4852221428UPIMSSMTPUSR01@email.msn.com>, Richard Brodie
<RBrodie@email.msn.com> writes
>The graphics look great. This is a good opportunity to critique some of the
>dogma:
>
><<Everything is a system. All systems (except perhaps quarks) are composed
>of causally related components which are themselves systems. All systems
>(except perhaps the universe) are part of one or more supersystems. Perhaps
>all that exists are physical and temporal patterns, ie. information.>>
>
>This doesn't work for me at all. Systems don't exist except in our naming
>them. All is complex, chaotic, stuff. All interacts with all else. We stay
>sane by pretending we can reduce things to simple models, but no such model
>is 100% accurate.
Of course there's a difference between any model and
what it models, but that doesn't mean there are no
systems. All is complex, yes, but there is order out
there, and we can understand much if not all of it.
Systems are just ordered, dynamic complexity. There's
nothing subjective about them.
--
Robin (who's glad to be back)