On Jul 18, 2014 5:55 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> > > > My cells all operate as a single cohesive system with an actual > > central control (one brain). > > Nope; not really. Look up autonomic nervious system; your body makes > *wide* use of distributed processing. >
Yes. > > Human bodies which do not have that property suffer badly from it. > > All of them, then, I guess. > This is why most of us cannot stop cancer by willing the cells to stop dividing. > > There is no central brain managing what we call "THE internet" and my > > point isn't that INTERNETs don't exist, it's that there's no > > particular one you can point to and call it "THE internet". > > I can point to any jack that is part of it, and say it's "The Internet" > (note, please, capitalization) and be describing it accurately. > > This is not an issue of engineering; it's one of nomenclature and > taxonomy. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
