recap on Rosen

Posted by Russell Standish on Apr 26, 2008; 2:37am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Welcome-Jim-tp526087p526119.html

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:21:59PM -0400, phil henshaw wrote:
>
> [ph] I haven't studied Rosen enough the really know if he's pointing to the
> same conflict between living things and machines that I am, but there
> clearly is a conflict.  Machines are the produce of a self-consistent model
> in the mind of the inventor, cities and technologies are complex learning
> processes that grow out of their own environments like all other natural
> systems..etc.
>
> Phil

Only simple machines. More complex machines (eg the Intel Pentium
processor) show definite signs of evolutionary accretion, as no one
person can design such a complex thing from scratch, but rather
previous designs are used and optimised.

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