On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this highlights problems with the Protectorate rules. They > depend on the Protectorate nomic having things like "fora" and a way > to "proclaim" things to the nomic, which are properties defined by > the other nomic. I could easily define "proclaim" and "fora" > for my machine such that "A message is proclaimed to this nomic when > it is is communicated to Goethe AND Goethe makes the necessary changes > by hand."
I think this effectively makes the machine + you together a nomic that could be a protectorate, not the software of the machine itself, which is a nomic but not capable of becoming a protectorate.
