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Actually, in one context what I said was precise (except the bit about vanaras. That's cultural indirection). The Rule of Least Power is defended by the context being the web, the whole web, and nothing but the web. It isn't mysterious. It is simply a weak rule somewhat as if one tried to apply the rules for building roads to building printed circuits. They are generally lines, generally go places, and things generally travel on them, but that is about as much as you get from the abstraction. Note that the TAG didn't say to apply it that deeply, thus the requests from a lot of people to get some kind of bounding or contexts of application once it quit being a principle and became a rule. Those get pushed out into the WebAsAmplifier and when unfiltered, bad assumptions are made, marketing gets involved, cathedrals are built and at the end of it, it's just Scientology. Send me $$$. The bits from cybernetics are actually very useful to know if you have to do business systems work doing data mining, warehousing, etc. A first order system is objective. Road and circuits. A second order system is subjective (observer selects what to watch and the measures to use so self-limits the understanding: that is the mote in the eye of science). If all I am measuring is lineness, placeness, thingness and travelness, I might conclude that I can build printed circuits with asphalt or that roads would last longer if paved with gold. As to the poetry, sorry about that. Yesterday I found out students from the department where I was trained in theatre were burning down churches last month. I'm wondering if it was the training or the time because I'd be more inclined to burn down the school. :-) len From: Benjamin Franz [mailto:snowhare@n...] Len tends to the poetic. Sometimes at the cost of comprehension by his readers. I think he is saying that real world data is fuzzy in meaning, but that in taking actions (such as executing a program) based on it we objectify it with specific meaning and interpretation. He is also saying that a good deal of things treated as objective fact by people are actually majority subjective opinion and implying that business meetings are painful examples of this.
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