For now, just two comments on your last message:
>...Before training, the horse can do lots of things in
>response to a situation. After training, it's going to do certain things,
>and not others. Hence it is more informed, more constrained. The effect of
>that constraint is to improve its fitness with respect to its environment,
>and in so doing, it gains in "power" in some sense.
No; it is the aquisition of the necessary information, this very fact, that
constitutes this metaphorical horse's "training." And, being consequently
better informed, it is competent to make informed choices and decisions --
which is different language for "effective use of energy, or power."
>>I think that, for now, only one of your questions is "urgent," namely, what
>>I mean by "recursion." I am satisfied with the description/definition in
>>your glossary;
>
>Please, again and again, this is not OUR glossary, but that of the ASC.
"The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks."
First, there was no disclaimer or qualification of the glossary when I first
hit this www page: is there one, now? Second, is there something amisss
because it is ASC's glossary, not PCP's? Third, if you ask me to explain
what I mean and I give you a specific reference, what does it matter if the
author was Norbert Weiner or Buster Keaton? ( ; - })> ...it's just the
lawyer in me, coming out!
I am still waiting for feedback before attempting to be more comprehensive
in my response and continuing on with our dialogue.
Regards,
Boris
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Boris G Freesman, Q.C.
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"Collaborating in the task of reshaping the future of humanity."
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"Caminante, no hay camino; se hace camino al andar." (Antonio Machado)
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Toronto, Canada
Phone, (416) 512 8965; Fax, (416) 512 8964
e mail, freesman@inforamp.net
snail mail, 4 Rollscourt Drive, Toronto, Canada, M2L 1X5
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