Re: state is how you behave to events ++ the first antibodhi law

in many ways
  it's a law of efficient programming

as your state machine handles events
event handlers are tied to current state

  that is from the definition

so minimising states helps minimise
  handlers needing implementation

but it has many other interesting results

look at get requests
  (accessor events)

one consistent problem i have seen
  from young new hires
is this desire to put local scope data
in the member state of it's object

so get accessors actually can change state
  to these new hires
  because they store pieces of the calculation in the request
    at various stages where they want to "remember"
and they don't worry about it's possible use across events
because they "try to remember to initialise"

this complexity building behavior is not possible
  if you follow the first antibodhi law
because you don't expect to change behavior on accessors
and certain classes of assumptions that follow from that expectation
  like ordering of access
can cause a certain class of bugs

of course
this is when they get explained the wonders of const correctness
  and how to find more resources to study from

   --+--

a differently illuminative model is seen in the way
  feynman diagrams are usually spoken of in scattering theory

in experiments
  we only have entry and exit states
  ie. we make measurements pre and post transitions

how the transition occurs is
  "implementation defined"
and this is reflected in the feynmann expansion

the external vertices are the "initial conditions"
  the "state preserved in every expansion"
and the operators for the internal fields
can be connected up in algebraic expressions
  coupling constants
  to bare propagators to..
none of which scattering theorists like to call real state

it's "virtual state"
  a perturbative expansion viewed as deceptive
  for "losing" certain nonperturbative effects
  (measurable effects unaccounted)
but still respecting a virtual antibodhi principle
(virtual state is how virtual fields interact)
that provides a calculus to describe a large class of interactions

to many scattering theorists
unless we have external vertices
  "measurements"
the veil of mechanism is left to the implementors of the model

the predictive power of any science
  of course
requires at least one implementation possible
but if the behavior can possibly be implemented
  it can be a scientific model of state change

theorists study implementations to find generalisations
engineers study implementations to find optimisations

sometimes they even match

    ***^..^$$$$$$$$

this first antibodhi law
provides a different interpretation
  of the buddhist description
  of arahants and buddhas achieving nibbana

it reveals the ultimate result of this quest

the desire to hasten the endstate
to no longer carry the bondage of being an event handler

as the ariyapariyesana sutta i 167 proclaims:

" then
    monks
  being myself subject to birth
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to birth
  seeking the unborn supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the unborn supreme security from bondage nibbana

  being myself subject to aging
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to aging
  seeking the unaging supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the unaging supreme security from bondage nibbana

  being myself subject to sickness
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to sickness
  seeking the unailing supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the unailing supreme security from bondage nibbana

  being myself subject to death
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to death
  seeking the deathless supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the deathless supreme security from bondage nibbana

  being myself subject to sorrow
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to sorrow
  seeking the sorrowless supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the sorrowless supreme security from bondage nibbana

  being myself subject to defilement
  having understood the danger
    in what is subject to defilement
  seeking the undefiled supreme security from bondage
    nibbana
  i attained the undefiled supreme security from bondage nibbana

  the knowledge and vision arose in me:

  my liberation is unshakeable
  this is my last birth
  now there is no more renewed existence "

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