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It was suggested that a bigger challenge would be to develop a Science of Mech-
anisms. This science would evolve a way of arranging mechanisms into family
organisations and in particular identify such mechanisms by their organisational,
features; features that are relevant to being able to counter the above issues of mis-
match and will also support the use of irrational sets. A result would be a way of
reducing complexity of implementation by construction mechanisms that match the
problem. Flexibility to change (as required for irrational sets) would be provided by
a change in mechanism definition. Mechanism definition would also include the soft
variants in terms of program organisation and the possibility of combining distinct
physical implementations.
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