could be here:
http://hyperion.math.upatras.gr/commorg/ekeblad/g93part.gif
Although the "flow of time" is represented left to right, what's actually
important is what action leads to another. Each node (an email) is the
product of focussed actions: the writing of an email. Time serves
traditionally to help us keep the ordering of what leads to what straight.
But traditional notions of time lead to horrible confusion when thinking
about the ordering of events in special relativity. So maybe time may not be
necessary for determining which event(s)/email(s) lead to another -- we can
follow the lines of interaction from each node to its response(s).
So, it's possible, is it not, to think of an action-algebra, in which actions
become symbolic operators, operating on configuration-space, which in turn,
makes available a modified set of operators? Hmm? But then the algebras i
know of are comprised of a finite set of operators, and people's actions are
extraodinarily many and complex and changing, so where does that leave
things?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Aug 01 2003 - 01:00:09 PDT
