Re: virus: Re: virus-digest V2 #27
Dan Plante (danp@ampsc.com)
Sun, 02 Feb 1997 18:12:40 -0800
At 10:00 PM 2/2/97 GMT, Dave Pape wrote:
>At 22:42 02/02/97 -0800, Lior wrote:
>>Reed Konsler asked:
>>What is the difference between an invention and a discovery?
>>---
>>Discovery - It was there before, we've only revealed it.
>>Invention - It wasn't there before, we've formed it.
>
>Inventions are engineering metasystems which emerge from the interaction of
>memes, organisms (largely human), and the components of the inventions
>themselves.
>
>>Humans can't create.
>
>Agreed.
>
>Dave Pape
Oh, what the hell. I'll throw my hat in the ring too.
Agreed.
(I wonder what James Burke would make of this?)
Dan
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The Metasystem Transition History of the "Dan Plante" System
initial conditions = data (conception)
control of data = information (conception to puberty)
control of information = knowledge (puberty to marriage)
control of knowledge = wisdom (marriage to divorce)
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