Insofar as this is an argument for incompatibilism, it is an argument for the claim that determinism entails that we are mere links in a causal chain and therefore merely the proximate causes of our choices.
A substantial body of evidence exists for the presence of homophily in offline social networks, where people tend to form links of all sorts, such as friendship, support, or mere contact links, with other people of similar age, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class.
A sustainable form of crowdsourcing will require forms of collective governance that mitigate the effects of market competition on those treated as mere links in a chain of algorithmic logic.
Granted, most of Google's 'apps' are mere links to the respective Web-based services, whereas 'ChromeDeck' is an actual app, but still.
Oh, by the way, LinkCloud offers a way to compose a custom start page based on visual bookmarks (logos of websites and applications rather than mere links).
I did, however, naively include a few thumbnail images of cute sex toys, along with a bunch of active, live links to NSFW content, assuming that, being mere links, and being in the MOAN section (which was surrounded by all sorts of pop-up warnings and caveats) there was no way anyone could possibly be offended.
It might be claimed that this causal or functional profile as a whole (rather than a mere informational link) is what makes pain experiences represent tissue damage as bad.
It is clear that RIP2 and NOD1 interact, in order for downstream signalling to occur (Kobayashi et al., 2002), but whether this interaction provides a mere physical link between NLR and downstream effectors molecules or whether the kinase activity of RIP2 plays a direct role in transduction mechanisms remains to be determined (Windheim et al., 2007).
It is not the first, but it is perhaps the most visible example of a vision for vast interoperability and collaboration that extends far beyond mere referral linking.
Fun stuff but SETIAtHome offers promise far beyond the search for ET. It is an inexpensive, populist approach that proves that mere PCs, linked together, can take on massive computing tasks that once were the sole province of governments, university labs and multi-national corporations.
