On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Without definition, gamestate is the whole game as of now. Anything needed > to interpret its current and future behavior is part of that state.
If that's true, the state also includes, say, the content of every message that will ever be sent in the future; or even the entire state of the universe, as a rule could hypothetically be enacted that refers to whether I was wearing a hat last Friday. I think it's more reasonable to say that Agora is not a closed system, but one that interacts with its environment-- in physics terms, at least; I guess in math terms that makes it not a system at all.
