Philips Definition

From: Steve Drew (srdrew_1@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 21:56:26 GMT

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    A complex behavior such as a fancy eating etiquette or royal
    inauguration
    may be decomposed in several programs of bodily movements. Each
    of these
    programs may be expressed further into more primitive patterns of
    movement/
    behavior until the movements are too mundane and non-unique to
    allow further
    recursion. The atomic level has been reached then.

    Comments, additions, wise-cracks? All are welcome...

    Philip.

    Interesting. Although you could decompose the movements, how does this
    relate to the situation? ie. etiquete is conditional on the situation that a
    person finds themselves in. eg How you hold your knife and fork may remain
    the same in two different situations, one 'right' and one 'wrong'. how does
    this provide a description of the situation. I'm going to sit down and think
    about this as it is worth trying to do some reduction and this is a good
    place as any to start. Mind you atomic reductionism has had a few problems
    as well.

    steve

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