Apple's successful conquest of Sony's home turf could be seen as the final evidence that the Cupertino company is what Deutschman calls Sony's "spiritual successor.

Indeed, except to the extent that the compilation has itself been enacted into positive law, the original session laws are in principle the final evidence of the law.

This paradox explains that there seems to be a distinct lack of evidence of such communicating civilizations regardless of the final number that drops out of the bottom of the equation.