On 28 January 2012 12:45, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 28/01/12 6:26 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
I would argue for the scientific method, or mathematics.
It can be argued that neither of the above would have got any traction
without the invention of writing, no?
Language, which
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:45:40PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On 28/01/12 6:26 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
I would argue for the scientific method, or mathematics.
It can be argued that neither of the above would have got any traction
without the invention of writing, no?
It seems that
On Jan 28, 2012 5:32 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2012 12:45, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 28/01/12 6:26 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
I would argue for the scientific method, or mathematics.
It can be argued that neither of the above would
If you ate willing to accept argument by passive voice it can beer argued
that writing is not necessary, but only an efficiency improvement.
Ate = are
Beer = be
Thank you autocorrect.
Sent from my galaxy note.
-- Charles
Were you hungry when you posted that? :)
Subconscious and all that
--
srs (blackberry)
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
Ate = are
Beer = be
Thank you autocorrect.
Your autocorrect places food and drink over auxiliary verbs. How very epicurean!
The only fly in the ointment is that we were born too soon.
Most of interesting things will happen when we're past caring.
I think this is what everyone, from Cro-Magnon Man onwards, must be
feeling when they (ha, gender-unspecific pronoun which the purists
will carp at) contemplate the future!
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
On Jan 28, 2012 5:32 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.com wrote:
Language, which allowed communication even before writing should be
considered, no?
Isn't language innate, not invented? Don't other species besides
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote
A linguist friend of mine says that while many species communicate, it
is only homo sapiens that have language. I have a strong intuition
(based on many previous claims of such human exceptionalism that
proved to be untrue) is that
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:05:57PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Then we can find a mathematician who says that while many species can
do basic calculation, it is only Homo sapiens that does arithmetic.
Birds can count well enough. You should see what some corvidae can do,
now that's primate-level
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 11:30:44 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
A fraught question, eh? :)
Man's greatest invention?
Agriculture
Agriculture led to settlements and leisure. Leisure led to writing and art
experiemnation and wheels.
shiv
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:45:20PM +0530, ss wrote:
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 11:30:44 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
A fraught question, eh? :)
Man's greatest invention?
Agriculture
Agriculture led to settlements and leisure. Leisure led to writing and art
experiemnation and wheels.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
I would argue for the scientific method
*curses*
I would ignore Silk right now for lack of time, but this claim is an
important point to nuance, else it is dangerous.
Forgive me, for I am going to telescope a bit
Correction:
It was not last year, but 2002.
In the context of:
Human decisions themselves are not always so precise and expensive.
Daniel Kahneman's work on decision making that won him the Nobel Prize
for Econ. last year touches somewhat on this.
On 1/28/12 3:48 AM January 28, 2012, Charles Haynes wrote:
On Jan 28, 2012 5:32 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.com
mailto:gkattuka...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2012 12:45, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
mailto:ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 28/01/12 6:26 AM, Charles Haynes
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