On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > 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.
That's angels-on-pins dancing. Is Agora a nomic or is Agora+Players a nomic? And same question for any protectorate. For myself, I am merely a humble servant of my machine, except that it is currently turned off. -Goethe
