by Mike Sfez, Chief Strategist and Axxun Creator
An information system is, by scope and nature, a dedicated
world for specialized information materialization. It is the producer of
automated results, generated by and reflecting the activity of information
entities. Like the acorn and the oak tree, an “information system” can exist in
nature, as well as in technological world. An application is merely an
electronic vehicle that brings the information system to “life”.
We define the “manifestation” throughout the information
system “life-cycle”: its “birth”, its
evolution, interactions with other information entities, and its “end of life”:
its archival or destruction.
In order to allow this “life-cycle” to unfold within axxun,
the Information System needs to provide a set of Services to support all
aspects of information development. These elements are called the axxun 10
Fundamentals. Each one has a pre-determined role and a behavioral intelligence
which makes it a genuine object.
Using the Acorn and
the Oak Tree as an Analogy…
When an acorn and the surrounding natural conditions are in
conformity, the breakdown of the acorn triggers
the release of the germination process which leads, after several seasons, to
the formation of an oak tree.
Facts
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The Event
produced an oak, not a rabbit or a salad.
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A broken acorn, even immediately reconstituted,
does not produce anything.
·
By itself, the acorn does not produce anything.
One needs a “ground setting”, or a context,
and natural conditions (heat, light, moisture, and minerals), to engage
the process of germination.
·
Without the acorn, the Earth produces nothing.
·
There is no resemblance between the acorn and
the oak.
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No external intervention explains to the acorn
how its germination process should happen.
The process is entirely self-contained.
·
Did we ever see a gardener speak with an
acorn?
Questions
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Where is the germination process “program”
stored?
·
Who starts the process of germination? And of
what nature is it?
·
Where is the “model” which stimulates production
of an oak, and not another thing?
·
Why can’t a broken acorn produce an oak?
Conclusions
·
The acorn’s DNA supplies the plan and model of
germination development. “Image of an oak” - oak properties and “intelligence”
- is encapsulated in the acorn (innate and inviolable)
·
The release (trigger) of the process is also
encapsulated in the acorn. But it escapes as soon as the acorn is broken! Its
nature is “non‑material” (non level-headed), otherwise a reconstituted acorn
would produce an oak.
·
The event of “ground setting” is what produces
the message of awakening (wake-up) to the release, which launches the
germination process.
·
No external program was necessary to conclude
the production of the oak, except some care to guarantee and protect its
growth.
It is with this theory in mind that axxun unfolds…