Re: is SIP an Emergent Property

On 2003.01.22, Kent Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my stupidity, I'm having trouble not seeing the following as a
> contradiction:
>  
>   "While you can set out the 
> parameters that control the behavior of the component parts, you can't 
> know how the interaction between those components gives rise to the 
> emergent behavior you see at the collective level"
>  
> and:
>  
> "But if indeed SIP is emergent, there should be way to know 
                                                 ^no
> how increasing or decreasing a given "setting" of these parameters will 
> affect the amount of SIP."

I think that's what Tozier meant, anyhow.

-- Dossy

-- 
Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [email protected] 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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