Meta Revisited

Published: August 7, 2007, 10:08 am

With this article I will try to clean up a little bit of the confusion that I help to create over the past few days. You might want to ask "WHY?" The answer to this is quite obvious: the medium is the message: the content of a message and how it is received depends strongly on the form it is presented in.This will be my last post on the subject of "meta"-ness. At least for the time being. It seems to me that there is a fundamental disconnect about what a system differentiates from a meta-system. For myself[1] (and it seems also for Paul and Robin), a system is a set of rules, protocols, profiles, etc. that are to be implemented. For example, there is a system in place that governs the quality of gasoline and automobile motors, and its standard ways of distribution. This system consists of rules, regulations, engineering practices etc. From what I gathered in the recent discussion with Bob and Pamela, it seems that they would call these rule-sets a meta-system (please correct me, if I

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