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From: Joe 10 <joe@joe10.com>
Subject: Re: Basic issue in Peter Small’s stuff
Date: June 30, 1997 at 19:22:55 EDT
To: Dad
And his response:
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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 05:06:30 +0100
To: Joe 10 <joe@joe10.com>
From: Peter Small <peter@genps.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Basic issue in Peter Small’s stuffJoe,
What your father writes makes sense to me. He is certainly aware of the
concept of a system which many people never seem to grasp.However, he is stumbling around because he is trying to see systems from a
top down perspective. This is to say that he takes the finished system and
tries to work out why and how it is functioning.Biological systems grow from simplicity to complexity. No plan, just
adaptational responses.To understand self maintaining systems you have to
first be aware that they do not control and manipulate their environment
they only respond and adapt to it. Systems grow, change and evolve
according to the environment and resources available. The rules of a system
are determined by the environment and the efficiency of a system is
determined by the competative pressures to acquire resources.Ask your father to give thought to theInternet as a system environment and
to think about what systems could survive and evolve in that environment.
That’s the name of today’s game.Peter
