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@@ -29,36 +29,37 @@ they have the "sense" that data structures lack.  They have the
 power that data does not have, to transmit knowledge rather than
 information. However, it must be understood that programs are highly
 sensitive to their runtime environments and for that reason robustness
-is an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness of life in
-natural habitats. Human cultural programs are high reliability systems
-which means they are chaotic systems that have phase after phase to
-downshift through (articulated joints over which to roll) as they take
-damage and heal from it by phase-changing back up over (computational)
-time (rewriting mental programs to account for unhandled or mishandled
-conditions while keeping the programs running continuously in a degraded
-state). Human cultural programs are far beyond what average or even
-elite programmers can hope to construct; they have been constructed
-by one-in-a-million prophets who were able to fully absorb their
-entire local culture and reprogram themselves individually based on
-reverse engineering that culture to become (themselves, as individuals)
-generators of self-propagating generator-regenerators. Their programs
-are constructed in such a way as to be rewritten generation after
-generation according to the local runtime environment, while preserving
-an evolving kernel to re-generate slightly adapted kernels again and
-again in new environments -- in such a way that the kernel picks up
-each new environment and carries it into the next without losing what
-it learned of the previous environment -- that is their robustness. It
-is the same as the genetic principle of DNA described by Schrodinger
-but most especially like the artificially bred/genetically engineered
-DNA of the immune system's antibody-generating cells. These have
-mechanisms that control the production of novelty, localizing it to
-one part of the DNA strand, while circumscribing every novelty with
-proof of provenance used to protect the system against foreign
-novelty (a single recognizable DNA strand that is the same for every
-antibody; that is, its coded protein has a strong chemical binding to
-a matching protein in the immunohistocompatibility complex providing
-the filter mechanism of auto-immune tolerance). The word kernel is to be
-interpreted as in the algebraic structure: preserved across a morphism.
+is an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness of life
+in natural habitats. Human cultural programs are high reliability
+systems which means they are chaotic systems that have phase after
+phase to downshift through (articulated joints through which to roll
+over) as they take damage and heal from it by phase-changing back
+up over (computational) time (rewriting mental programs to account
+for unhandled or mishandled conditions while keeping the programs
+running continuously in a degraded state). Human cultural programs
+are far beyond what average or even elite programmers can hope to
+construct; they have been constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who
+were able to fully absorb their entire local culture and reprogram
+themselves individually based on reverse engineering that culture to
+become (themselves, as individuals) generators of self-propagating
+generator-regenerators. Their programs are constructed in such a way
+as to be rewritten generation after generation according to the local
+runtime environment, while preserving an evolving kernel to re-generate
+slightly adapted kernels again and again in new environments -- in
+such a way that the kernel picks up each new environment and carries
+it into the next without losing what it learned of the previous
+environment -- that is their robustness. It is the same as the genetic
+principle of DNA described by Schrodinger but most especially like the
+artificially bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune system's
+antibody-generating cells. These have mechanisms that control the
+production of novelty, localizing it to one part of the DNA strand,
+while circumscribing every novelty with proof of provenance used to
+protect the system against foreign novelty (a single recognizable
+DNA strand that is the same for every antibody; that is, its coded
+protein has a strong chemical binding to a matching protein in the
+immunohistocompatibility complex providing the filter mechanism of
+auto-immune tolerance). The word kernel is to be interpreted as in the
+algebraic structure: preserved across a morphism.
 
 In a literal kernel, the DNA sequence in the seed's nucleus is a literal
 algebraic kernel, in an algebra of sexual reproduction that includes
@@ -69,16 +70,17 @@ phase which gave the next level of meta-advantage in information
 accumulation as group-shared emotions applied distributed computation
 to sensory information turning e.g. individualized sight into area
 surveillance; that super-organism was again jettisoned when Humanity
-transitioned into its cultural super-organism phase; but remnants of the
-old system always exist and indeed exist as the foundations of the newer
-systems and abstractions are leaky and the new stuff only has to work
-just-better than the old stuff so it isn't ever all the way there -- you
-know how it goes. So capitalism was founded on the conceptually very
-different property relations of feudalism, which only slowly shifted to
-match the needs of the capitalists, without necessarily losing their
-old-timey words and old white men with robes, or even the fact that some
-people get to force other people to fight in front of them and a spot
-in the back is the foundation of political power.
+transitioned into its cultural message-passing super-organism phase;
+but remnants of the old system always exist and indeed exist as the
+foundations of the newer systems and abstractions are leaky and the new
+stuff only has to work just-better than the old stuff so it isn't ever
+all the way there -- you know how it goes. So capitalism was founded on
+the conceptually very different property relations of feudalism, which
+only slowly shifted to match the needs of the capitalists, without
+necessarily losing their old-timey words and old white men with robes,
+or even the fact that some people get to force other people to fight
+in front of them and a spot in the back is the foundation of political
+power.
 
 Haskell monads show us how algebraic morphisms are as intuitive as
 quasiquotation. Thank you Mr. Quine. But these are all just simple