Re: is SIP an Emergent Property

On Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003, at 13:03 America/Detroit, Kent Beck 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
> how increasing or decreasing a given "setting" of these parameters will
> affect the amount of SIP."

No stupidity. Undercaffeination:
But if indeed SIP is emergent, there should be *NO* way to know...
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