• To: 'Eric Bohlman' <ebohlman@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: RE: Generality of HTTP
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:22:32 -0600

Yes.  We give it pheonomenon a name but it is just a moniker, 
somewhat like referring to organized crime syndicates as "the Mob" 
when in effect, all it refers to is a purported relationship. If 
controls are emergent, it controls a point of view.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Bohlman [mailto:ebohlman@e...]

I think the point is that "The Web" is an emergent phenomenon of all those varyingly hooked-up 
pieces, just as Len Bullard is an emergent phenomenon of a bunch of ever-changing cells, and that 
treating it as if it were a physical object would be committing the fallacy of reification.  A 
person, a river, or a Web are in many ways best thought of as processes rather than things.

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