Greetings Economists, On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
it's a mistake to generalize: for me (an aggie), the non-existence of god is a working hypothesis, while for an atheist, it's a fact.
Doyle; The metaphysics of agreement is beyond the scope of resolution just as a generalization would be for an individual like me. But the underlying conflict between metaphysical positions is an emotion connection issue. Automation of emotional connection in conflict is about setting the stability of concepts in the community. A generalization really rests upon the size of agreement in a community. Automation can address that, and what is unique about a networked computing society is that 'emotion' can be manufactured by a machine in order to meet connection needs in the community. In essence deal with the scale problem of face to face emotional connection. The avenue for that is the face based avatar. For an example of an avatar I created yesterday see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ See the Doyle set in which I sketch my own character of my own face and ascribe specific scenarios to the face. That can be automated and used to 'connect' people emotionally on a very large scale. Doyle
