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Article #8658Re: Recursive Searles, or what?
From: David H. West
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 15:54
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 15:54
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In article <1933@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN) writes: |One can assert that pattern is either: |1) a tool used to simplify the immense complexity of the universe Yes. |(e.g. it is really incorrect to say a car stopped when you pushed the |break, the thing which made the car stop was no more and no less than |the quantum (and sub-quantum) level interactions of everything in the |universe within the distance of the speed of light over the given |period of the event, and the initial probability distributions |in the universe, but this needs simplification). A more thoroughgoing application of this approach of course also unreifies the car, quantum mechanics and everything else, including language, communication and entities such as ourselves. Once we realise this, we can also resume the discussion if we choose! -David West dhw@iti.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!dhw From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Recursive Searles, or what? Message-ID: <4766@itivax.iti.org> Date: 9 Jan 90 15:54:01 GMT References: <12679@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <12702@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <GILHAM.90Jan5125405@cassius.csl.sri.com> <1224@oravax.UUCP> <GILHAM.90Jan6103615@cassius.csl.sri.com> <1933@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 19