I agree that "determinism" has much to do with the questions here, but to immediately pose a question about "the world" being deterministic might be putting the carriage before the horse. I think the the other, perhaps…
It seems like in any case, use of "server" is generalizable or stable over situations where we have "an entity communicating requests to another entity which is responsible for servicing those requests." The problem…
I agree that "determinism" has much to do with the questions here, but to immediately pose a question about "the world" being deterministic might be putting the carriage before the horse. I think the the other, perhaps…
It seems like in any case, use of "server" is generalizable or stable over situations where we have "an entity communicating requests to another entity which is responsible for servicing those requests." The problem…