MDDM: Uncle Ives

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Murthy:

The line goes, "but lately return'd from a Coffee-House Meeting, he is bound 
later this evening for a slightly more formal version of the same thing" - 
the "more formal version" clearly pointing to the official proceedings.


 and from Jay Lemke:

“...the model assumes that new levels of organization always emerge between 
previously existing levels. New complexity arises in systems because the new 
level N re-organizes the relationship between level (N-1) and level (N+1). 
Level N units and their interactions now mediate between the levels above and 
below: not all variety at level (N-1) remains available for re-organization 
at level (N+1), there is a filtering performed by level N. Conversely, we may 
say that level (N+1) is buffered against variations at level (N-1) by the 
stabilizing mediations at level N...”

As above so below, excepting that which is in between: the cozy confines of 
the “Parlor Apes,” somehow mediates between the two, so that not all degrees 
of freedom (anarchy) of the coffee house are available in the more formal 
proceedings, yet, through the parlor, somehow, there is a way to connect 
them- if not one to one, then at keast, some selection of the conditional, of 
all that might have been, i.e., history in the making.