On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:21:59PM -0400, phil henshaw wrote: > > [ph] I haven't studied Rosen enough the really know if he's pointing to the > same conflict between living things and machines that I am, but there > clearly is a conflict. Machines are the produce of a self-consistent model > in the mind of the inventor, cities and technologies are complex learning > processes that grow out of their own environments like all other natural > systems..etc. > > Phil
Only simple machines. More complex machines (eg the Intel Pentium processor) show definite signs of evolutionary accretion, as no one person can design such a complex thing from scratch, but rather previous designs are used and optimised. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
