Replying to LO30949 --
Dear Jan,
You do not assume intentionality? Viruses are never released "by
accident", as they are programs that are written with the intention of
demonstrating a factor of the machine's uniqueness. The problem of
intentionality is more complicated than that. Viruses are borrowed
from the original writer usually so that they might be used to find
this aspect of another's user's system.
At the very least, one of the very practical elements of systems
thinking is the piece which allows them to be used to see the
intentionality of the small group.
Ed
> HelLO Edward, dear readers,
>
> I've always problems with why questions, perhaps also because i
> personally do not assume intentionality. Large systems, like
> MicroSoft, but also our bodies, are "victims" of viral attacks because
> they "are". I also assume that large - success to the successful -
> systems are - or were - themselves "viral" and therefore tend to
> create their own counterforce. Later - when looking back - one might
> think - and many a CEO wil say - that because there has been a causal
> relation there was also an intentionality. But that - in my opinion -
> is not true. In hindsight, it might look like that, but when somebody
> is proven right, (s)he was most probably misunderstood too. And
> someone who is understood, will be proven wrong. It has happened to
> almost all uf us.
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