Theo Honohan wrote:
If a cybernetic view is supposed to be more realistic than the
alleged god delusions of self-organization, this idea of changing
the parameters of the entire environment is a steep requirement for
it to satisfy without itself becoming a god delusion.
Well, unfortunately
AND the operations defined in each system mirror each other.
Isn't this redundant? Unless of course, the system is defined in
such a way that it places limits on what operations are definable,
which isn't the case with mathematical numbers, nor (theoretically)
digitality. I'm pretty sure that's
Jim wrote:
What exactly do we mean by isomorphism?
For me, the interesting thing about the digital world, as opposed to
the analogue one, is that digital objects are all amenable to easy
manipulation transmission with the same bag of tools.
The point is not that they are isomorphic to
