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<p class="MsoNormal">Reactive in the sense of, say, <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming">
https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Russ was asking how I thought about constructing responses like this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasmyth@swcp.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 5:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"friam@redfish.com" <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] alternative response<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/14/20 6:34 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sure, ok. I don’t know what any of this has to do with Russ’ lecture on free will.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was just responding in the affirmative to the apparently underlying question of if we are all reactive machines. Of course we are. While the reaction could be complicated, or the stimulus could be communicated over a faulty channel
and thus result in a response that is inappropriate, how *<b>could</b>* it be any other way? I didn’t say anything about the taxonomy of machines being limited or any individual instance being simplistic. That’s just a straw man.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">... and I was just... being "reactive"?<br>
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