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RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reas

• To: 'Rick Marshall' <rjm@z...>, Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Subject: RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reasonable?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:50:58 -0600
• Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>

Right.  AKA, reductionism.   The complexity theorists 
make reference to this approach.  It isn't that it isn't 
useful, it is that it won't enable one to discover the 
source of emergent behaviors.

Think of the scientists who used dissection as the 
means to discover the principles of life.  It didn't 
work.  Life is a network effect.

len

From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...]

yep, i agree. and yes i know all those things too.

decomposition fascinates me because we have 3000 years (at least) of 
experience with it (back to the ancient greeks) and it pervades our 
thinking.

rick

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