Excellent! So, the idea is to place a higher order operator in amongst the lower order operators over which the higher order one operates, thereby making the expression impredicative. Damnit, there's a name for sentences like that ... not merely recursive or iterative. I can't remember it, though. "Reflective" maybe?
Ordinarily, I'd argue that such loopy definitions aren't extraordinarily expensive. I tend to think it's necessary for what we normally think of as "alive" or "conscious". But I suppose there are pathological cases, neuroses, or OCD, where the reflection swamps the rest of the machine. On 9/24/20 12:25 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > In your example of migrating zero and non-zero terms in the infinite > expression of all things: As the correlations become more massive I start > thinking let's replace that with a representative agent; let's compress that > mess of proliferation back down to one thing. Religion is a virus and a > fundamental cause of that mess of proliferation. All we've come up with in > this country so far is to make them tolerate each other, no thanks to the > best efforts of Bill Barr and so on. I would say it is slightly pleasing > how they tend to eat each other. But man it is an expensive soap opera to > produce. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
