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Article #2054Re: Technological Singularity
From: Peter Seebach
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00
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. -s -- Copyright '98, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / seebs@plethora.net C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Not speaking for my employer. Questions on C/Unix? Send mail for help. Visit my new ISP <URL:http://www.plethora.net/> --- More Net, Less Spam!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd5f7,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd5f7,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Technological Singularity Date: 1998/06/11 Message-ID: <qwRf1.729$bj2.3711376@ptah.visi.com> X-Deja-AN: 361698935 References: <357011e7.0@news.victoria.tc.ca> <y6g1hjkby5.fsf@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> <357C6ED2.434709D0@virgin.net> <y6k96q5xz9.fsf@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:07:18 CDT Organization: Plethora . Net - More Net, Less Spam! Newsgroups: sci.econ,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai,comp.arch,comp.robotics.misc