Glen's Claim: a) a mesh of parallel processes evolving in time b) each process has a local branching structure c) these branches (and the events that walk them) compose d) that composition is monitored and remembered within some scope e) that monitor/memory is used by a controller to edit the branching structures
Heraclitus says: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." >From the Eulerian perspective, fluid flowing through a river delta has many of the characteristics of Glen's theory. We can imagine the river delta as a mesh of composed local branching structures, whose *events* are the ensemble particles of the flow (a,b,c). The flow *monitors* the river delta directly, it experiences the changes in gradients and shear (d1). The flow *memories* the river delta by acting on the delta directly, it frees sediment at one stage only to deposit it at a further stage (d2). Through time, the flow's monitoring and remembering *edits* the branching structure of the river delta, giving rise to phenomena like distributaries and important to our *free will*-discussion delta switching (e).
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