glen,I should have been more specific - lower case truth is nothing more than one of those three specific types of failure, i.e. sensor fatigue, sensor or effector lock, or channelization of a circuit through the web. My model is deliberately simple and not intended to say anything about systems in general or failures of systems in general.
Although I did day in an earlier post that the only possible time that upper-case Truth might exist is when the universe achieves heat death and is completely ordered which is, of course simultaneously completely disordered. davew On Thu, Oct 19, 2017, at 10:09 AM, gⅼеɳ ☣ wrote: > But, as Marcus indirectly points out, your defn of truth as a capability > failure, then holds everywhere, all the time. Any system with any > temporal delay will exhibit it. E.g. the inputs come at time t0 and the > reaction comes at time t1, during that delay Δt, the system is failing > ... adhering to some truth. And any system with any sort of spatial > extent will exhibit it. E.g. an input comes in at position x0 and the > output exits at position x1, the space in Δx will be failing, adhering to > some truth as you define it. > > The only structures that could possibly satisfy the extreme > embedded/responsive constraints you've put in place for "non-failure" > will be completely "ordered" in the sense of having no depth or > structure, including faster than light communication. This makes your > definition a bit useless because it makes truth ubiquitous. > > > On 10/19/2017 12:07 AM, Prof David West wrote: > > I define lower-case truth as nothing more than one of those capability > > diminishing 'failures' of the system. > > -- > ☣ gⅼеɳ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove