Posted by johnboy on January 24, 19101 at 19:10:53:
In Reply to: Christ OS posted by Philoman on January 24, 19101 at 12:56:07:
Dear Christ Operating System Systems Analysts,
i've lurked long enough and my curiosity is growing
something tells me Philoman is sandbagging us and has an expanded master paradigm on a storyboard
so, Philoman, now that you have obviously captured the interest and fired the imaginations of our discussion group, might you avail us of other components of your metaphor
where in the cybernetic realm do the faculties of memory, understanding and will originate?
are cognitive abilities in the motherboard, CPU, applications loaded in RAM? is memory located on drives, disks, etc? is the will expressed in output devices?
what about the hierarchy of matter, body, mind, soul and spirit? where does PxOS interface? and where our *natural* operating system?
i like Woody's PxOS ontological discontinuity, where he has Windows 2000 running on a Mac (btw, isn't that kinda like ensouling Olivia Newton-John's personhood in Phyllis Diller's body? jeepers, get a PC! )
i'd enjoy seeing the metaphor expanded but don't want to get too far ahead too early or run too far afield
and I do understand your excitement, running Windows on your Mac instead of OS 9.x for the first time --- you've got to feel the same way those apostles felt at the Transfiguration!
at some point, we're going to need a cyberclassroom graphic or operator's manual to keep up with this great metaphor!
btw, Philo, wasn't it when Eve gave Adam an Apple IIe that we were all kicked out of cyberparadise! of course, you'll reply: "What a felix culpa! For there never would have been a PxOS!"
shalom all,
jboy