timelets

Informational concepts are so powerful that, given the right level of abstraction (henceforth also LoA, see chapter three), anything can be presented as an information system, from a building to a volcano, from a forest to a dinner, from a brain to a company.
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‘if “x is y” at LoA z, is z adequate?’.

Since future doesn't exist yet, the right prediction [about it] can only be made as an abstraction at LoA z. Maybe that's why Pierce thought about abstraction as the ultimate intellectual tool.