Re: Functon of BwOs.

In message <199801081510_MC2-2E91-74F7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anthony Beck
<AnthonyBeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I suspect there is an ambiguity in 'function'.  You appear to mean what it
>does, I mean what it is ideally to do.  
instead of ideal function, self-assembling systems run on milieu
specific immanent rules 

>Thus the BwO can generate function
>in the former sense, but I suspect it is interesting nonsense to talk about
>it doing so in the latter sense.  

it is only interesting in the sense it has terrorized the planet for
2000 years.
>Ifd he latter sense requires a whole
>fowhich the functioning entity is part then i assume there is no such whole
>for the BwO and therefore - nonsense.
>Anthony.

-- 
steve goodman