Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
by h2odragon on Saturday November 27, 2021 @09:54AM
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It's much worse than that: it becomes philosophy.
Beyond some level of complexity a system isn't one, anymore, it is an emergent phenomenon that has many of the aspects we ascribe to "life." Our inputs affect the systems, surely, but not in a predictable or even repeatable way.
A cow is an "inefficient means" of turning grass into tasty beef, by some accounting. But the cow is, as far as it is concerned, fully efficient at being alive. our notion of "what is the internet" fell out of sync with the realities sometime around '94 i think.
Beyond some level of complexity a system isn't one, anymore, it is an emergent phenomenon that has many of the aspects we ascribe to "life." Our inputs affect the systems, surely, but not in a predictable or even repeatable way.
A cow is an "inefficient means" of turning grass into tasty beef, by some accounting. But the cow is, as far as it is concerned, fully efficient at being alive. our notion of "what is the internet" fell out of sync with the realities sometime around '94 i think.