Ciao TonyM An interesting issue (for me) about software is its intrinsically "determinate"--meaning it HAS to have fixed logic. At machine level its 0 or 1. Nothing else. The human brain is not like that. The "logic" of "wetware", physical organic matter, and consciousness, does not work that way.
A body is not a car. A mind is not a machine. Whilst medical science needs reduction to "parts"/"units"/"fragments" in order to make sense of the otherwise obscure situation (e.g. appendicitis/brain fever) its always an APPROXIMATION, not a DETERMINATION. What IS interesting in TW is that it's degree of support to "wetware" functioning is very unusual. Largely that is to do, I think, to do with its "self-modifying" nature. BTW, modern genetics is particularly relevant conceptually as its NOT about strict determinism as that is not how (despite wider ideas) gene manifestation happens. (see, e.g. Life Unfolding <https://www.amazon.com/Life-Unfolding-human-creates-itself/dp/0199673543>) The upshot of what I am saying is that TW, by Quine Behaviour, approaches a generic problem in Computer Science. I.e.: how to Properly emulate human meaning shaping. That is about as far as I can get. Basta Josiah On Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:47:17 UTC+2, TonyM wrote: > > Josiah, > > very interesting. I did not know about Monad but a brief review suggests > you may be right. > > Interestingly I was about to extend my last argument about how the tiddler > is the uniquely keyed object in the centre of tiddlywiki with the fact that > this rule is cast into stone, yet one can immediately code a solution to > shield the logic from this rule. > > Tiddlywiki provides excellent rules then gives you the tools to bend them. > > In recent decades we discovered the human brain was much more adaptable or > plastic than we imagined. I think tiddlywiki is a very plastic software > solution that works well with our plastic minds. Reminding me of one of my > first metaphors for tiddlywiki that it is like plasticine from which you > can build almost anything. > > I would be happy if twx was named with inspiration from moldable plastic, > clay or a version there of. Dough, Lego or macarno also comes to mind but > with Quine Monad and self referential qualities it is hard to find a common > analogy. > > Tiddlywiki stands alone but connected to everything. > > Universal software or like the invention of the general purpose computer, > the universal client the browser do we have general purpose software? > > my imagination is sparked. > > Tony > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/15e157cb-89db-4b55-99b2-e698f63fed97%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
