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Right. AKA, reductionism. The complexity theorists
make reference to this approach. It isn't that it isn't
useful, it is that it won't enable one to discover the
source of emergent behaviors.
Think of the scientists who used dissection as the
means to discover the principles of life. It didn't
work. Life is a network effect.
len
From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@zenucom.com]
yep, i agree. and yes i know all those things too.
decomposition fascinates me because we have 3000 years (at least) of
experience with it (back to the ancient greeks) and it pervades our
thinking.
rick
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