Back around to Selection among Reductions. I'm on board with that, so
long as we keep principled on the notion of what a constrained reduction
is; not just a choice of cartoons.
Somewhere along the line, though, the notion of rewrites got less
salient for me.
Yes, maybe too general, fair enough, but since it was Russ's question
originally....
Carl
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
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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