I know you directed the post to Dave. Obviously, you weren't talking to me. 8^) But I will again demonstrate my lack of manners and interrupt, anyway.
It's common to denigrate those who answer questions with questions. But my response to the scout would be: "Well, what did you EXPECT to happen?" Give a man a fish ... yadda yadda. On 5/5/19 10:53 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > So, imagine yourself talking to a group of boy (girl-) scouts. You have > just demonstrated to them the phenomenon of Cellular Automaton #30 (or > whatever) bursting into seething dog vomit at iteration 10,601 (or whatever) > (or bursting out of seething dog vomit into grand pyramids of pyramids, ad > infinitum, what*/EVER!/*). One of the scouts asks, “Professor Dave, why did > that happen then?” And once you have explained that to them, please explain > to them how that explanation is not an adequate explanation of consciousness. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
