Attached is a sketch from my memory of the estimates of the completion
of Microsoft Word for Windows made on various dates. The dashed line is
where the estimated date of completion equals the year the estimate was
mad
Lee
God:creation::fish:water::programmer:emergence?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Beha
> It's as
> if I ran into God on the street and I said, "God, I have always
> wondered: How did you do this creation thing? And God answered "What
> creation thing?"
God:creation::fish:water
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Me
Glen,
This is, among many other things, glorious prose. Thank you.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Beh
We can apply your ... pragmatism (not pragmaticism) inherent in "what good is
gut pain" to your story vs. model question, too. The significance of any thing
lies in what you can *do* with it. Hence, any "taken as given", self-evident
propositions will only exist as tools, just like their derived
Hi David,
No, on Bennett. Not yet.
But as I struggle with Russ’s assignment, that I sketch out a material account
of the consciousness relation (the conscious-of relation?”), can I share this
thought with you?
Why exactly do FRIAMMERS fascinate me? It is because you begin with e
My wife worked for several years at the Rio Grande Archives, in the NMSU
library. When asked, I said her job was to read other peoples’ mail.
--Barry
On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this
kind of memoir. Often,
In one of life’s surprises, one of our daughters sent us something she
found through Google (but not ancestor.com), a document about 75 pages
long, author currently unknown, that tells stories of my wife’s
ancestors back to the late 18th century and ends with her grandparents
and their siblings
Dave writes in relevant part:
> also, if the Turing machine, the programmer, and the 'user' form an
> appropriate triad, might it be said that the Turing machine 'knows' what
> the programmer programmed and the user observes? None of the three
> elements "possess" that knowledge in isolation, but
