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Is the Web Stochastic? (WAS RE: Re: Where does the "nothing l

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• Subject: Is the Web Stochastic? (WAS RE: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" myth come from?)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:20:56 -0600

To the question, is the web exhibiting stochastic behavior, 
this thread might be offered up as the counter-example.  
The Internet is simply plumbing for an immune system 
of content.   What cannot be answered with certainty 
is if the web has an identity, a self, or if the  
answer is that it replicates the behavior of 
its network structure in the identification of relationships 
among content without a clear notion of self, and is  
merely a struggle among machines of contexts 
making selections of succeeding states without 
the requirement for progress or improvement, but only purpose.

len

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