Semiotics and Prerogative
July 4, 2009
Given signs and their denotations, a language represents relations between signs and also perhaps between signs and niches of the real world.
Gödel has proven that any fixed formal system is incomplete. A successful formal system requires an organic nexus to assess and introduce new signs.
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Victoria University of Wellington has successfully proven the failure of the Victorian headless system.
Committees and Interaction
June 14, 2009
Given a committee as a possible internal mechanism for analysis and resolution, that committee must still have a single organic interface to other entities.
For example, the President of the United States might have a cabinet meeting, but when the president speaks to China at the highest level, the dialogue between the President and China is an interpersonal interaction that becomes recorded as the official conversation between those two nations.
The President changes, but the historical record does not. The president is not the United States, but must still act with full responsibility for the previous conversations and actions of his country.
China should not and does not expect to have to speak to each cabinet member about the same topic or about different aspects of the same topic. Each cabinet member brings a different aspect to bear, and, just as with the kaumatua, the president takes all into consideration to act and phrase the president’s behaviour, statements, and responses.
The Hexagon
May 24, 2009
A neomodern structure with a central courtyard, a number of concentric hubs and apparently random connecting hallways housing representatives of China, Japan, Fiji, Scotland, England, and Russia.
Surrounding the hexagon is a tent city and collection of food halls open only to employees from twelve other countries: Indonesia, Ireland, Sweden, Thailand, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Holland, and Denmark.
[too many friendly firing incidents to be interoperable with my friends the United States.]
Trying Times
November 23, 2008
In the spirit of openness and benevolence, I wrote this open letter to the people of New Zealand.
Previously I had outlined the problem to the Ernst Mayer Museum [note the two spelling mistakes] and sent a letter to the Broyal Society of New Zealand.
