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Re: Technological Singularity

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From: Peter Seebach
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00
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In article <y6k96q5xz9.fsf@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>,
Craig Burley  <burley@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> wrote:
>And, to anyone who claims everything is all "one" with some mystical
>notion of a "universe" and that "matter" is thus just acting out
>this "oneness" in a fashion that renders pointless any discussions of
>medium-level behaviors such as evolution, geology, mathematics, and
>what-not, I ask: if that's so, exactly why do you have to bother
>claiming it at all?

My assumption was that the point was to try to communicate to everyone engaged
in these "pointless" behaviors that it's a waste of time, in the hopes of
convincing us to discuss something *important*, like our inner children.

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From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: Technological Singularity
Date: 1998/06/11
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