cellular automata

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

I guess I must pursue it then.

(Possessing, taming, ordering- this
is beginning to take on a sinister tone.
Whatever happened to self-organizing
monads? Maybe just an older term for
cellular automata?)


In a message dated 7/27/02 8:43:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
sam at zeppomusic.com writes:

<< You might argue that, even if you can pick it up at the
 House of Noble Barnes, it still must be 'ordered,'
 otherwise what chance do us mere mortals have at
 understanding it all? Conversely, request it via the
 official simulacrum of Thurn und Taxis and it's still,
 in a sense, disordered.
 
 All of which pretentious guff is rendered obsolete by
 the following: the book has been tamed, and can be
 whisked off most shelves with a simple 'yoink!'
  >>