ONT 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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