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In a message dated 11/19/04 3:24:47 PM, hhowen@comcast.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Bob wrote: "Sometimes I'd rather be free to explore within a known boundary<BR>
than not know when I was going to drop off the edge of the<BR>
world."<BR>
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I guess I could say something like . . . only a flatlander worries about<BR>
falling of the edge of the world. Other folks go 'round and 'round searching<BR>
for new possibilities -- even if the official wisdom says there aren't any.<BR>
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Harrison<BR>
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Harrison Owen<BR>
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Brief comment: Chaos Theory, et. al. deals with 'bounded instability'. There is a container, an edge. OS is certainly Chaos Theory in action, imho, where something will emerge but you don't know what or where, just that form will emerge from the primordial soup. A person I met once, name long gone from my memory, unfortunately, once said there are only two rules needed to build an ant hill.<BR>
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1. When an ant carrying a stick comes to another stick, it puts its stick down.<BR>
2. When an ant not carrying a stick comes to a stick, it picks the stick up (and carries it until rule 1 occurs).<BR>
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That will build an ant hill within the space of the travel abilities of the ants (the container) but you cannot say where it will emerge, but emerge it will.<BR>
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IMHO, just so with OS, the minimum needed conditions having been set (by the structure Harrison developed), potentially useful form will emerge.<BR>
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Paul Everett<BR>
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