Re: Zeroth Order Ontology

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ZOO.  Discussion Note 18

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MA = Murray Altheim

MA: Yes, this idea has been familiar to me since about 1977 when
    I was building TTL and CMOS circuits for robots in high school
    (and no, I wasn't a complete nerd.  The rest of the time I was
    handing around with the cute girls in the theatre department).
    I.e., that you could use NAND gates to build anything else.
    TTL was probably my first full-on experience with actually
    using logic in some practical application.

MA: And when you put it that way, the full-circle *whack* on the side
    of the head effect happens (but you can't hear it over email).
    So please go on, I'm curious as to how this fits in.

Murray,

Actually, it e-sounded more like a "thwaaaack" from hear, but
I echount that more to the e-fluence of a doppler-gang e-fect.

Nerdily speaking, off course.

Well, looks like my more officious duties on the main are doon for a bit,
so let me see if I can recover what this choicer bit might've been aboot.

Eh?

Okay, all your hardhatted hardware types know about Peirce's amphecks
under the "new-fangled" -- a word that we find in Chaucer -- names of
"NAND" and/or "NNOR".  But we are beyond the "hegemony of gates" (HOG),
a fate earnestly to be desired, whether yet realized or not, so until
these types begin to PLA or F-PLA with some hardware a bit more flexy,
they do not typically begin to think in the soph-wary fashion that we
need next to explore in this formal nexus, plexus, sexus, whathaveyou.

So that will be my focus, when next I knob this tune.

Jon Awbrey

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