What defines concept

As Douglas Hofstadter says,

`It is the organization of memory that defines what concepts are'.

Hypertext uses machine memory in a way that has no analogue in the traditional text environment, where composition relies on the organization of human memory. It is the organization of memory in the computer and in the mind that defines hypertext and makes it fundamentally different from conventional text.

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Organisation and structure

We can talk about the organisation of Hypertext as opposed to its structure.

Actually, Humberto M. Maturana and Francisco Varela have tried to define the difference between organisation and structure. The organisation of a system consists in the necessary relations which define the system. The structure of a system consists in the actual relations between the components which integrate the systems as such.Therefore the organisation of a system like the Internet can remain invariant while it maintains its identity without disintegration.

To Varela, structures can vary provided they satify the organizational constraints of the system.

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