On Friday, March 15, 2013 4:11:28 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Craig Weinberg > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > What does it mean to 'lose control' of something? > > > > Your car, your bladder, your gambling, your pet Rottweiler... > > > > What are the broad physical principles involved? What are we talking > about > > when we refer to this, and why is it something that can have > consequences > > considered to be 'serious'? > > > > It would seem that the legacy view is to simply deny that this phrase > refers > > to anything in particular. All processes are simply probabilistic > exchanges > > and clockwork mechanisms which are not 'controlled' by anything in > > particular to begin with. > > You persist in saying that if the components of the system are > mechanistic then the system cannot control something. That is not the > way the phrase is normally used. >
What do you mean by 'control'? Can you define it? Craig > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
