On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:27:01PM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > I should stay away from discussing bacteria. Brownian motion and > chemical actions could in fact make intelligence ("free" choice-making) > unnecessary, as you may have suggested. > >
Why avoid the topic? By studying these sorts of "edge cases", we get a clearer idea of what we mean by various things. Although edge case hardly describes the situation. The dominant lifeform on this planet is bacteria. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.