<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The idealists will never stop idealizing and then reifying their ideal. To Engineer is Human. But those of us who know (or merely confidently believe) reality is made up of a diverse non-wellfounded set of ... what? ... urges? ... nano-agents? ... IDK, whatever, will always anastomose that built environment ... or at least reclaim it like a hermit crab squatting in a tin can.<br></blockquote><div><br> I like the visual and deeper concept, Glen. A kind of wuwei attitude. <br><br>sequeing impermanence of political structures to over-reified software:<br><br>Today at lunch, John Zingale lamented that the residence time of code in the system seems to be decreasing. Perhaps Anastomotic Computing is the next big thing. :-)<br><div id="gmail-:1mu" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-aO9 gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:85px" aria-controls=":1pj" aria-expanded="false"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><img src="cid:ii_m2wk6jqh0" alt="image.png" width="265" height="265" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>