[FRIAM] Truth: “Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!”

[Prof David West]

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
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