The core issue is imo what you define Agora to be. The social activity or the "formal" space we generate together?
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > On Sep 13, 2017, at 2:19 AM, Aris Merchant <thoughtsoflifeandlight17@ > gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Agora would stop existing. It would therfore have no state. Arguably > > though, if we made a meta-descision to recreate it, it would start > > existing again. The Paradox of Self-Amendment has some stuff on this. > > Would it, though? The presence of rules may not be the defining feature of > Agora’s existence. The rules tell us how to play, but - I would argue, not > what Agora _is_. That definition is not formalizable without resorting to a > higher meta-level than the rules, I suspect. > > That said, I have absolutely no intention of running any experiments on > this, and in fact will object as strenuously as is possible to anything > that would have the effect of removing all rules from Agora. > > -o > >
