Repeat for email ... On Monday, 19 August 2019 16:13:24 UTC+2, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > I tagged this as "offtopic", but I don't think it is. > > Computing emerged in a context of being able to take something apart and > reassemble it in a better way and with calculation. > > The prior philosophical ideas behind it emerged partly from extreme ideas > like those of Julien Offray de La Mettrie > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie> in 1748 with > "*Man > a Machine*." > > The idea that life can be reduced to "re-combinational parts" got much > stronger in 1818 with Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein>", a seriously good literary > expression of Mettrie's thesis. > > Originally seen as repulsive and horrific, the idea you could re-combine > bits into wholes is now very accepted. *Google is a large Frankenstein.* > > I personally like the "TW Fragment" approach Jeremy is very committed > to--but its a direct assault on holism. > > There is a deep philosophical PROBLEM with fragments---as with any strong > approach. > > *HOW small is a good fragment? And how would you know?* > > > Thoughts > TT >
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