Glen, Eric, I am enjoying how the conversation is developing. The celery example strikes me as being important, but where Glen refers to *scale* I would speak of *domain of definition*. That a shift in domain happens to be size, rather than some other contextual specification, may not be what we want. If this isn't the case Glen, please let me know. With respect to Eric's points it seems fair to me to say that a paddle wheel is behaving, but perhaps not in the *larger* context of the river. The celery is behaving, but not not in the *smaller* context of capillary action. Here I am using the language of *large* and *small*, but perhaps other modalities have a place as well. One can say Nick's behavior appears spontaneously, but in fact was necessitated by something *prior*. Here an *earlier* Nick could play the role of the river.
Frank, Would you say that the mind is as public as RSA encryption?
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