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- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: Dualism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov09.235139.93390@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 23:51:39 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.135623.11557@oracorp.com>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- In article <1992Oct29.135623.11557@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
- >I will agree that *given* an abstraction function, and *given* a
- >decomposition of a system into parts, then it may be possible to say,
- >objectively, whether the system with that decomposition and that
- >abstraction function has a certain functional organization. However,
- >the choice of abstraction function and decomposition are not
- >objective, and can be done in more than one way.
-
- It seems to me that when talk about a "system", rather than an "object",
- there is already implicitly a functional organization specified.
-
- I will agree that you can't talk about the functional organization of an
- object without identifying it as a particular system. I don't think there
- are, at this point, any fundamental (i.e., philosophical) problems in doing
- this for human beings as thinking entities, although the practical (i.e.,
- scientific) problems are very considerable.
-