Summary

This little series of blog postings tries to discuss the topic of

• A Common Layering of the Universe, or, in other words,
• An Order of Creation.

The following blog postings are currently available within this series:

• We are all Brothers and Sisters, an “Order of Creation” is bullshit
  see https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/01/layers-planes-tiers-wtf/.
• A more scientific discussion about why we COULD or why we COULD NOT split the universe into layers
  see https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/06/protocols-and-interfaces-wtf/.
• An idea, why the discovery (invention?) of abstraction layers in the Information Sciences of the 20th century could have incented the discussion about the Layers of the Universe, freshly
  Introduction: see (THIS POSTING) https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/07/layer-mania-wtf/,
  Protocols and Interfaces: see https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/14/software-protocols-and-interfaces/.
• A philosophic summary: see https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/17/layer-mania-ii/.

Introduction

Please don’t be shocked. This posting will be about some philosophy.

This is not a blog posting about science of nature, nor about science of technology, it could even be interpreted as a religious posting.

Hence, this posting is a temporary contradiction (let’s say an exception according to Heisenberg) to my principle about keeping this blog an agnostic blog.

If you cannot accept this, then please ignore this posting 🙂 .

Dear Reader!

In my first post of this series (https://areasharpa.blog/2024/04/01/layers-planes-tiers-wtf) I thought about the layers of the universe.

With a kind of reasoning – which was more a religious reasoning than a scientific one – I came to following conclusion: […]This MUST make us think that all this LAYERING OF THE UNIVERSE is bullshit eventually.[…]

Hence I tried to become more systematic, more evidence based. So I wrote the second post of this series (PROTOCOLS AND INTERFACES), where I wrote down

• arguments PRO the idea of an “order of creation” (i.e. of a layering of the universe),
• arguments CONTRA an “order of creation”.

That headline “protocols and interfaces” was not explained.

I presumed the idea that our invention of software interfaces and protocols in the 20th century (or was it a discovery?) has incented the idea of a layering of the universe freshly.

Hence, I want to meditate the following idea, this time:

Even, if we cannot support the idea of a rigid and static layering of the universe (i.e. the idea of a “layering of the material objects”),
How can we come to the idea of a “soft layering of the universe”, i.e. of the definition of layers that span all entities of the universe, when we try to explain the idea of software interfaces and protocols?

First, we must repeat the starting point of our considerations:

A Hierarchy of all the Material Objects is Bullshit

I wrote in the first post of this series: […]May I suggest to think about the “Canticle of the Sun”, by Saint Francis of Assisi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticle_of_the_Sun)?[…]

Well, brother Saint Francis of Assisi hit some point, when he asserted, we are all brothers and sisters.

And he subsumed into this “big family” not only all humans – all peoples and all ethnia – but he meant all creature.

When we conclude the thoughts of brother Francis, we will arrive at following point, finally:

All creature can be considered as brother or sister, as part of a big family. Be it the smallest brick in any wall, be it a little rock in any river, be it the sun, be it any of our tortured brothers or sisters in any country of this beautiful world.

So far the statement, from a religious point of view.

But what, if we considered the INNER layers of each creature, when we considered

Software Protocols and Interfaces?

This chapter will be written next weekend.

Have a nice week

Yours Christoph