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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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