Re: A question re measure {correction 2}

2005-10-09 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Russell: I would change my last post and say that since tails pair with many heads and heads pair with many tails [assuming I am right re what you said] the most compact way to build an All is to use heads as the kernel where ever possible. As heads are encompassed by evolving Somethings

Dynamic was:: A question re measure {correction}

2005-10-09 Thread John M
Hal and Russell (and whoever is interested), in this dialogue - which I don't feel like participating in - the word 'dynamic' is frequently applied. Without going into more involved theories where the term 'lives', the dictionary meaning is like procedure involving a force or similar. My notion wa

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2005-10-09 Thread SavageMailbox
Best to Everyone.   Thank you for the flow   Cheers,   David

Re: Dynamic was:: A question re measure {correction}

2005-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
Yes - you have put finger on exactly where I feel most uncomfortable about Hal Ruhl's ideas. Over to you Hal :) On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 12:02:38PM -0700, John M wrote: > Hal and Russell (and whoever is interested), > > in this dialogue - which I don't feel like > participating in - the word 'dyna

Re: Dynamic was:: A question re measure {correction}

2005-10-09 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Russell and John: The simplest response is that in many of the discussions on this list there runs a current of what I see as a level of systemic change. There are for example computers computing, or observers observing. Russell proposes [as I understand it] that there is a degree of lin

Re: Dynamic

2005-10-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Hal, It seems to me that a "global ordered sequencing" would be equivalent to Newton's idea of absolute time. As I see it all one needs is a local sequence of events - ala Leibnitz' "time is an order of sucession", and some thing that acts as a local measure of change. Together these m