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Total control is impossible

Total control is impossible

Chapter 06 — Control • Paragraph 2 • §06.00.02.00

Control is relevant to a processing (a processing operation that takes place results in control), not to a dataset. A Being cannot exercise control over a dataset (a Thing or another Being), but only over certain processing operations on it (by other Beings). In other words, total control is impossible (except for by the state, see §16.00.02 and §16.00.03): myriad processing operations are possible on any dataset, and any attempt to control them all is inconceivable, precisely because they are possible, meaning unforeseeable, as the analogue world was not designed by humans (on the digital world, which is designed by humans and thus could theoretically enable total control, see §16.00.06).

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