Re: [microsound] herbs&spice and everything nice

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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Mark Khemma wrote:
>> >> Next on the rhetorical chopping block, what would be required for the
>> >> entire message to be limited to its relations to the tool?
>> >
>> >no input _and_ no output
>>
>> Interesting. So if the tool is the message, then the message is death?
>
>then the message becomes mute, or rather moot, i'd have to say

Right, the message dies. "Mute" is the effect not having any output, and
"moot" makes the message irrelevant (or otherwise covered). I don't know
what m-word might cover not having any input, but another word for that
might be "inanimate".