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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

I AGREE, JOHNS.

P.S.  WE ARE BORN OF NATURE AND THEREFORE INTUITIVELY ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, AND
RETREIVE INFORMATION THE WAY NATURE DOES.
P.P.S.  THINK METAPHORICALLY.

------ Original Message ------
Received: 10:44 PM PST, 01/24/2005
From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Re: [piw] hello from ANdy Goldring...

Aloha,

> I don't fully understand how nature organizes, stores, and retrieves
> information and I feel a little overwhelmed by being tasked with
> achieving such an understanding

It may help to remember that 'nature' does no such things as 'organize', 
'store', 'retrieve', etc.
These not-things are all abstractions of human observations (or lack 
thereof, as the case may be).

So you (we, actually, if this is still a collaborative design effort - 
it's not all on your head IMO) just need to model and then implement how 
we humans want to store, organize and retrieve our abstractions of our 
observations.

As for the rest, I support staying on track with our once-upon-a-time 
core/basic/initial project of creating a permaculture-centric DB of 
plant information that allows contribution from the larger community.

Keep it modular and open and all the other wishes on the ever-expanding 
wishlist can be realized in good time...

John S.

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John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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