essay or (sin noise reduction) by or of francisco varela, from the workshop autopoiesis and perception, dublin city university, august 25th_26th 1992.

found at: randall whitaker's bibliographic list on the topic.

basic mode of identity... but ¿what is basic?

sometimes strange behaviour can emerge when people are left alone on stage with nothing but their slides, a big screen, no pointer but a lot of enthusiasm. eager to stress the importance of a bullet to the audience, he all the sudden goes up to the screen, mutates into a curser, jumps up vertical to underline something horizontal.

next time i will give points.

international lisp conference.

one of the things to notice about programming is, it follows the manufacturing model. what if software takes a little bit of responsibility. software as collaborator never ending installation lost sourcecode self-sustaining, self-repairing code garbage collection is allowing you to write ugly code, noticing the failure and repairing. if a complicated systems needs to live for a long time, living becomes the ultimate goal. autopoetic software and robotics stigmatgy, pierre-paul grassé information hiding: in computer science the principle in information hiding is the hiding of design decision in a computer program that are most likely do change those protecting other parts of the computer program from change if the design decision is changed. softwaredevelopers are the most conservative people on the planet ... they just don't want to change anything, they talk about the salami slice problem. (richard gabriel,conscientious)

the lisp-site is also an example how postprocessing of a conference on the web makes sense: more ballast! story, where pp and text are combined to tell the story nicely with hindsight.