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• Ch 25 — Systems as an act of recognition: observer, variety, control

  A system is not found but recognized: coherence, pattern and purpose are all acts of mind, and because variety is counted by an observer, control begins with a definition rather than a measurement.

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• Ch 6 — The Brain in the Vat

  Part I, Ch 6 argues that the notation is drawn as a nervous system stopped at the neck, leaving out by design the people who staff it and the interpretation Beer names in principle.

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