Carl Tollander wrote:
Rather, we are looking to world states as other regulatory systems or
n-categories (topoi?), themselves operating "on-the-fly". I'm not at
all sure that simple rules and rule-rewrites are a viable path for
describing such states.
Hmm, rewrites could draw from world objects involving many kinds of
subcomponents to form an array of other abstracted patterns to constrain
further polymorphic rewrites. For example, first map various symptoms
to suggest a disease process, and then do rewrites on the basis of the
presence of that disease. The approach of operating on multiple views
of the world seems more natural that working on it directly -- most of
which is irrelevant detail.
Is this a more general topic than the current question?
Marcus
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