> [Krimel} > About the only reason I ever got for Pirsig's limitations on his levels > was > 'because...' There have been many discussions about it but it seems > everyone > has their own thoughts on the matter. My own is that experience is too > fluid > to be confined to fixed set of static levels.
DM: But you just gotta have some latching to evolve. > > [Jos] > Fanantiaclly applying this [flip flop-machine language-progam-novel] model > to it-self, it seems clear to me that as soon as you turn a machine "on" > and > allow it to boot it has become what is analogous to alive. Being a > heterotrophic organism it chooses to feed from an external energy source > in > order to sustain itself, it reacts in complex ways to stimuli and performs > various homeostatic housekeeping duties. On top of that it stores > information and shares it with other similar "organisms". The fact that it > frequently "requires"(gets) "user input"(stimuli) "in order to" (that > happen > to) change its patterns of behaviour is immaterial as this is also the > case > with most biological systems. > DM: Sure, but it never seems to get bored like me. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
