Re: products and emergentism

From: Molly Freeman (mollyfreeman@telis.org)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 08:13:31 PDT


Mike,
Wouldn't language be more than the sum of its parts? What origin myth
of the Internet do you mean? I hear variations on the origin that
emphasize the role of different actors, but I wasn't aware of a myth....

Molly

Mike Cole wrote:

>Molly-- I have been too overwhelmed to get into this discussion, but I was
>caught by the phrase in the abstract that "language is a product of words."
>Seems worth stopping to think about.
>
>I also think that the military-industrial origns of the internet somehow
>go lost in the origin myth. When I write at this time of night you know things
>must be a little strained!
>mike
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