My bog entry about the trinity of computation dealt more directly with the thought. Logic, Language and Structure. Logic and Structure are things and Language is an action that joins the two. Logic is a Subject in the relationship, Structure is the receiving object. It is made a receiving object by the function (function is an action verb) of Language. Oh, but, but, yabut.....Language is a noun not a verb you say? Maybe so in common thinking but if a binary (either/or) judgment must be made Language is more of a verb thing than a noun thing. Oh, but, but yabut......previously I said that all there is in this world are things and actions!!!! Here is the trick in pulling a rabbit out of a hat:
Actions are things. They are such a special type of thing that they have a "Thing" sub-class called action (or verb in the language).
Gets confusing doesn't it.
It is not so confusing when it is looked at in terms of Physical and Logical Entities. Physical entities, things in the real world like rocks and water have physical properties. Logical Entities are conceptual creations of the mind. Logical entity conceptual creations may exactly describe the nature and function of Physical Entities in the real world. Beyond the truth of making an exact model of the real world using Language, Logical Entity conceptual creation can model anything that the mind can conceive far beyond the dictates of the natural world and the physical laws that dictate its structure.
Pigs can fly in Logical Entity conceptual creation. So can Superman.
The Internet can be, and should be for the purposes of clarity, described as a physical object. A networked collection of physical devices having physical properties. Wikipedia describes it as such but then jumps to the logic information that is its purpose. It does not very well the important bridge that gets from the physical world of devices and electronics/photonics to the logic conceptual structure that is built on and far beyond the purely physical structure of the Internet. That Logical Conceptual Structure is the World Wide Web. The important bridge that connects the two is at the one to one Physical Logic Identity of objects in the physical Electronic/photonic Internet to their relationship with a binary object model of "off and on" (presence and absence of a charge) with a Conceptual Logic Identity model.
That presence/absence concept is what brings it all together like Lebowski's rug.
The simplicity in the complexity is realized if at the very essence we recognize the nature of Physical and Logical entities and what implements (Language) their relationships. As complex as those sub-sets of entities and their relationships can become they can all be understood. We can even understand and comprehend the non-logical relationships.
A USB device is a physical device. One of the little things in the Big Internet of Things. However, in the conceptual structure of the relationships among the Internet of Things, a physical device USB thing can be assigned the logic function of a different physical device, maybe a keyboard or a screen. That is the beauty of where the Logical Conceptual world of our minds can leap the bounds of the Physical World we live in to another world of different rules and structures.
A USB is one thing in one world but a wide range of things in another world.
Update, days after this entry I found this: Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken.
The Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things, two different worlds as different in nature as mind and body. Cling to that as a fact of life and complexity can always be reduced to simplicity.
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