Re: The Axiom of Choice
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The internet itself is totaly DISorganized. Decentralized.
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The internet strikes me as both organized and decentralized.
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Parts of it are organized - but those parts are basically held by a single participant. Amazon, for example, organizes it's own data. Wikipedia members have organized the data in their domain. On the wider internet as a whole, organization is only an illusion, provided by filters that other parties provide to screen junk out. Even domain names - amazon.com, google.com, mit.edu, etc are really just a mapping of externally-provided organization (but decentralized organization!) onto a less-organized collection of 32-bit numbers that represent each computer's "address".
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