Man, this board is on the rag! This has got to be the most extended period of PMS I've ever seen. LOL
Somehow I feel a bit like I was responsible for starting the vitriol in a little way. I finally got fed up with L.C.'s condescending, long-winded posts. The mere fact that he can't even recognize his monotonous, holier than thou, droning means he is hopeless.
L.C. You have absolutely NO SENSE OF HUMOR WHATSOEVER! In the real world I don't even bother with humorless people. I don't really care what your beliefs are. You could be a liberal and I'd still find you tiresome. And, no doubt, this post will send you off into another diatribe.
It's rather funny that you refer to us as "hit and run." I type approximately 75 words a minute. I know how long it takes to compose a single long message. There are times when you post that it appears you spend your ENTIRE day responding to other posters. I am not afforded that luxury anymore, and if I were I don't think I'd waste so many of my days responding to what you essentially said were unworthy debators. So "hit and run" it'll be.
Spall, watch it kiddo. You're losing your sense of humor. How many times are we going to dance this dance? I think you and I have covered alot of ground. We both know where we stand. Perhaps this conversation, at least, between you and me has run its course. I can't prove anything to you, and you can't prove anything to me. Nothing wrong with that, but we can get caught in the same endless loop that Righton is caught in, and doesn't that feel just a little weird? <G>
You completely missed my humor in my last posts on P.I. I simply posted a bunch of statistics. You inferred sentiment into my statements. I played. The only thing I took real exception with was your statement that correlation doesn't prove causation.
It was a blanket statement, Spall, and not terribly adept. To have been more accurate you might have said that correlation does not always prove causation. I realize there's a subtlety there, but nonetheless, since BB messages are so prone to being read the wrong way, subtlety is EVERYTHING.
A little advice, if you're willing to accept that we oldies are worth anything. You're young, get some other interests. Talk about some fascinating books you've read (other than political). A funny show you saw on TV (other than political). The interesting way that the light played with the landscape at sunset. The fun you had attempting skiing. The girl you went out with the other night. You're a little overly focused for someone so young.
And, no, that is not distaining your youth, it's asking you to enjoy it, explore it, revel in it.
So let me turn the tables with a whole new subject that has nothing to do with politics.
I'm reading a book called "The Age of Spiritual Machines." It's absolutely fascinating. It's a look to the future. One of computers with real personalities, nanobots, neural implants, virtual realties. Many of these issues I've read about in less detail.
So here's a scenario for you. It is believed by the author, and I think quite possible based on Moore's theory of the doubling of computing speeds every 12 months, that by the year 2020 computers will have reached the speed of the human brain.
Now this is different from the human brain's quickness for complex mathematical problems (in that regard the computers are already way faster), but it's quickness in things like pattern recognition, i.e., when we walk into a room we KNOW a chair is a chair, the person in the chair is Bill, etc. We also don't have a single database like a hard drive, but rather a distributed network. Another major advantage.
The next assumption is that we are already mapping out the brain. Yup, buckos, the neurons and their links will probably be mapped out in 3-D before the middle of the century. If we are able to download a person's conscience into a computer, does that computer become conscience? Does it think, therefore it is?
To anyone who happened to read my post on the quote from Tom Robbins' book about the evolution of man and that the missing link is still among us, you'll appreciate the next step in thinking.
Computers are the next step in evolution. Natural evolution being far too slow, the evolutionary process has dictated that the evolver shall now participate in advancing the time frame of evolution.
Oh, and if you want some homework, you'll love this question. Where and what is your God spot?
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