--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
Funny to
> see a bunch of lefties 30-35 years later sounding
> like the Fugitives.
>
Funny, but not surprized. Both have found a metaphysical certainty: one in the values of the 19th century agrarian south, the other in the Enlightenment. It's a scary, changing world. Let's get back to fundamentals!
-Thomas
===== The real world gives the subset of what is; the product space represents the uncertainty of the observer. The product space may therefore change if the observer changes; and two observers may legitimately use different product spaces within which to record the same subset of actual events in some actual thing. The "constraint" is thus a relation between observer and thing; the properties of any particular constraint will depend on both the real thing and on the observer. It follows that a substantial part of the theory of organization will be concerned with properties that are not intrinsice to the thing but are relational between observer and thing.
W. Ross Ashby
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