Ack, good point. Since we're talking about some sort of weird Hebbian co-constructed universe, though, maybe they're the same thing? I'm reminded of Frank Tipler's idea [¿] that life might save the universe from a big crunch by migrating (and moving their masses with them?) into a 'ring', thereby creating a Taub Universe ... slowing the collapse at the ring so that it *seems* to take an infinite amount of time. If the number of investigators studying a given region of space *causes* the space to convolute (or simplify), then scaffolding and collapse are two outcomes of the same process.
[¿] At least I learned it from him, whether or not it's his idea. On 9/17/19 3:10 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Further is it really scaffolding, or just a way that many otherwise > independent agents get collapsed into a few degrees of freedom and then never > really use or want a scaffolding? -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
