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rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 20:51 GMT
No they are not those cute fuzzy little creatures that Cyrano Jones
gave to Ohura, on the bridge of the Enterprise.
http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc73&image=21922_tribble3.jpg

No a troolean operator is a term I just invented.
http://tinyurl.com/lka7e

We tend to think that true/false is all you need but what about
undecided?

If it is greater than or equal to zero then do this.

Well what if it is undefined? Nil.
0 is a number.

So what about the situation where you might say, if it is there, then
is it red or blue?
Well what if it is green?

Or, you might say, in almost every case, barring quantum fluctuations
of the tachyon field, the microwave will propel the operator 63 meters,

on detonation, or whatever scientific experiment you are engaged in.

barring quantum fluctuations means in lauyman's terms, 'sh*t happens'

Also you see, it is a fallacy, to think that everything has an opposite
when in fact there is no opposite to a sandwich as an example.

My point is simply this...

Boolean operators lead to faulty logic and incomplete theories.
This results in such things as NASA mission failures like the one where
they
launched the ranger probe to try and land on the moon,
missed the moon, and the probe went into orbit around the sun.

Had they thought ahead and said well what if? What if it is neither
this or that, what if it is neither this nor that, but may be unknown?

Troolean operators.

Some of you may recall last year when we had discussions regarding
building
a new library of knowledge in the Gulf Islands with giant statues like
Achilles, and the like, and on this huge complex, we would create an
S3 center.
A center for higher learning and such which was to include the
humanities,
and exhibits. 1000 science exhibits and temporary lodgings and a
biosphere,
and place for the display of genetically engineered animals, and the
like.

A place which could act as an advisory body to politics and whoever and
would be an internal venture to foster global unity.

There was some old architect who had this dream of unity, from the 40's
or 50's and he did some drawings and I happened upon them one day.

This was the image we used last year to dream his dream with him,
wherever
he went to I have no idea, but this was his rendering of 'The
Facility'.

http://img135.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc278&image=22945_paradise1.jpg

well lo and behold, what do I come across a couple days ago, but yet
another
drawing from this same person, of the same facility, but from a
different view.

I included it with the latest version of Personal TV Studio that I am
releasing
this weekend. I was just grabbing some royalty free example images to
include
when I found the image.

Anyways here is another rendering of the Facility.
http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc167&image=23132_TheFacility.jpg

Oh to be rich like Bill Gates, that is what I would do with my money.

You know last year we even found the island, it was in the Gulf
Islands, and it was even for sale.
http://gulfislandsguide.com/real-estate/norway-island.html

and we also found out that Bill has his own island, where he was
building some
sort of dream home or other, about a mile away.
Interesting stuff.
But what a wonderful thought. To build a center for higher learning, on
an island,
and have giant statues, like the days of old.

Nice architecture as well.
You can see the influence of various cultures in his work, and his
dream of unity
which he built into his ideas.
http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc279&image=23569_DreamScape.jpg
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 21:04 GMT
[quote]
A place which could act as an advisory body to politics and whoever
and
would be an internal venture to foster global unity.
[unquote]

that should read International not internal.

> You know last year we even found the island, it was in the Gulf
> Islands, and it was even for sale.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> building some
> sort of dream home or other, about a mile away.

well maybe more like 5 miles away. But near there anyways.
I really should use that preview button in google.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 22:07 GMT
And yes of course there would be genetically engineered
hydra-trita-calee
on display as well.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/ricksobie/JackKerouac.mp3

(I have to get back to work)
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 22:22 GMT
You know, I don't want to be a nit picker Mike (Myers) but I sort of
invisioned it
to be more, well,
less like this...
http://tinyurl.com/j75y8
and more like this...
http://img135.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc278&image=22945_paradise1.jpg
http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc167&image=23132_TheFacility.jpg
http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc279&image=23569_DreamScape.jpg

Um, youre fired.
Kilgore Trout - 10 Mar 2006 21:38 GMT
Although I think I understand your point, two-value logic has great
strength and utility.  For instance, that computer you are using is
made possible because of this system of 0/1 - on/off - t/f logic.

Now, if your point is that these logical systems are incomplete, well,
perhaps you have heard of Gödel.

In the strictest sense, it is perhaps true that this logic simply
mimics our experiences (thus making it more inductive than deductive)
in the real-world, without saying anything really deep about that
world.

My understanding is that Gödel showed that within any deductive system
we can produce statements that basically claim to be decidable iff they
are not decided.

A rough (and somewhat crappy) analogy is the old statement:  "This
statement is false", which cannot be assigned a truth-value.

Anyways, it's been a long time since my last logic class, so I am
probably garbling some of this.  But the basic idea that these systems
and even the meta-systems which analyze them are flawed is pretty much
accepted at this point.

And of course there has been extensive work in "many-value" systems of
various forms.

-KT

> No they are not those cute fuzzy little creatures that Cyrano Jones
> gave to Ohura, on the bridge of the Enterprise.
[quoted text clipped - 96 lines]
> which he built into his ideas.
> http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc279&image=23569_DreamScape.jpg
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 22:04 GMT
> Although I think I understand your point, two-value logic has great
> strength and utility.  For instance, that computer you are using is
> made possible because of this system of 0/1 - on/off - t/f logic.

Yes, but it crashes all the time, because the programmers, never said,
true false or something else, they always say, true false or error out,
and often, they don't even say error out, the computer just crashes,
because they said true or false, and the value of the variable
was undefined, and so then if it was meant to be a word value, a
positive
whole niumber, and it ends up being a negative number like an integer,
then well crashola, bad memory assignment or whatever.

It is being applied now, by error checking which says, if the value is
nil,
then do this or that.

Because there is a difference between something not being assigned and
a value.

for instance, you ask the computer if this number is greater than or
equal to 0
do this, else do that.

You think you have it covered no?

Well the problem is that an undefined variable can be any value,
whatever happens
to be at that memory address, so it is outside of your equasion.

You have written code, and are assuming that you will get a math
result,
which is greater to or equal to 0, but since the value was nil, not
assigned,
it referenced what was in that memory, pulled out a negative number not
related at all to the function result you were expecting.

It is almost like a random number has been pulled from the air, because
you have no idea, what the value happened to be that was sitting in
that register.

Hence you have a problem, that does not appear until the computer
crashes.

There used to also be a problem with division by 0. But that has been
fixed.
Or at least it doesn't crash the CPU, it will still cause an error and
your program
whatever it might be then will handle that error.

So the design of computers, with 0's and 1's is flawed from the get go,
and it
still amazes me, how we useed to have to reboot win 95 and win 98 like
10
times a day, .and people accepted it. They didn't have any choice
because there
was no real alternative. You couldn't just go and ask for your money
back
like you certainly would, if the washing machine you just bought, had
to be
unplugged and plugged back in 10 times a day.
(sorry for the wordy response)

> Now, if your point is that these logical systems are incomplete, well,
> perhaps you have heard of Gödel.
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> And of course there has been extensive work in "many-value" systems of
> various forms.

Well I think an improvement would be the troolean operator, in computer
logic.

This would force the programmer, to consider the what if's, and make
more
reliable systems overall. I am sure that in any scientific endeavor, at
least
being consciously aware of quantum fluctuations, has improved things,
yet there is no formalized method of applying it short of just saying
statistically
the result will be so.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 18:49 GMT
> Because there is a difference between something not being assigned and
> a value.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> whatever happens
> to be at that memory address, so it is outside of your equasion.

Let me try and clarify this a bit...

You have an equasion, and if the result is positive or 0 then this.

Now in this above example, it returned a negative number, and so you
assume,
that you caught that as part of your equasion, and so that.

Now what if the value sitting in that register just happened to be a
positive number?

Well then you assume, what you were expecting was the result in your
equasion, was true.

Yet that number was just sitting in a memory register, the actual
variable which was supposed to represent that memory register, was not
assigned a value at all.

Now it wasn't technically nil. It has some old number in it from a
previous
assign call.

So here you have a situation, where your supposed air tight equasion,
has
a thing which can enter into your equasion, yet not be part of your
equasion. It has entered because it looked like a value you were
expecting,
and it became a part of teh equasion, but it just entered in the
middle.
It did not come in in linear fashion.

So what you might have said instead of if the result is greater than or
equal to 0,
then this, else do that. That is a typical boolean situation and that
covers
true or false.

Lets freeze that frame for clarity right there.

Things can only be greater than or equal to 0, and less than 0 no?

Yet, what happened was one of the parts of your equasion was an
imaginery or random or nil value, it was merely an undefined commodity.

So the result looks right. It looks like it is still greater than or
equal to 0 or less than 0, but really the equasion answered nothing.

Because one of the constituent parts was well a lie.

And so what would be the merit of a reply, that was a lie? You can't
send rockets
to the moon based on lies.

"Well when you get out there, in space, be sure that your flaps are not
on too
steep an angle, you don't want friction to burn them when they are
turned
towards the sun"

So, OK, there is no atmosphere in space, flaps need air pressure to
work,
yet would the sun cause them a problem, and would that problem
surface, when you are back on earth, trying to land?

If the person was a known liar who told you that, you would be worried
because
number one, it sounds serious, yet has components which may not make
sense.

So it may be a true statement, it may be a false statement, and it may
be pure
nonsense.

troolean operators.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 18:58 GMT
> "Well when you get out there, in space, be sure that your flaps are not
> on too
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> be pure
> nonsense.

Lets take it a bit further.

So you say, well either what he said was true, or what he said was
false.

Granted, so what is the result?

Undefined.

Maybe parts of what he said we true and parts were false, but the whole
thing sounds like bs, and you have to make a decision.

So you see, if you stop there, you might crash. So using troolean
logic,
you would expect the unexpected, and in this case get a second opinion
and if everyone is just making stuff up?

So you still need to assume, that it may be true, it may be false,
and if something happens that is not what you might expect then
you have a plan c.

And that is where a whole lot of problems occur. Right there in plan b.

Because you assume a thing is either true or false, so you have a plan
b.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 19:42 GMT
> > "Well when you get out there, in space, be sure that your flaps are not
> > on too
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
> Because you assume a thing is either true or false, so you have a plan
> b.

So why stop there? Why not have a plan d, just to be sure?
By the time you hit plan c, you no longer have any basis for logical
deductive reasoning, so to go to plan d, is just a more robust
plan c.

case in point, the first attempts to land a probe on the moon.
Ranger 3, misses the moon, goes into orbit around the sun.
Ranger 4, piles into the moon at about mach 5.
Ranger 5, misses the moon by 450 miles.

So OK, what we see here is that ranger 5 doesn't look much like
a plan c, it looks like yet a repeat of plan a.

Why was that? Well they assumed the gravity on the moon was
according to their physics a certain value, and well it wasn't.

Out of the blue, here is a situation that defied belief.
But the result was an unexpected occurance, not accounted for
that the gravity on the moon would differ from what everyone would
expect at that time.

So they stopped there, Russia was launching a set of probes called
Luna at the same time. They too had been unseuccessful. After Ranger 5,
Russia launches Luna 7, it bores into the moon full tilt.
~poof~  (that's the little dust ball that comes up on impact as it
disintegrates)

but they kept at it, by now convinced it wasn't just technical glitches
and their formulii must be wrong, and so trial and error, and voila,
Luna 8 crashes, Luna 9 lands.
And then America is successful as well, after everyone finds out
what the values actualy were.

All along they had been dealing with formulii, that contained a lie.
And the result was unpredictable accordingly.

It is not sufficient to go on values from a book say as you go along,
you need to be able to read those values as input, as you go along,
and calibrate your equasions based on known facts.

So if Windoze, instead of boolean operators, used troolean operators,
in every boolean instance, throughout the code, you would need to
provide
for three possibilities.
This was implemented by the programmers as they went along anyways,
but not right there at the place where it needs to be.

Every question, every boolean question, needs a what if.

So rather than say, if this then that, what we now have is a thing
called try.

A catch block that goes around your equasion, and it says try this...
and if there is a problem then it catches it.

Systems are much more reliable and crash far less as a result of that.
You don't even see, the miriad of times, the program you are using
catches itself from screwing up. It doesn't have to report every
error.
It just catches it, and carries on, you push a button, and you go,
Hmm... nothing happened, and so you try something else.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 19:58 GMT
That's correct. "Try" from the Latin tri, as in try this, we have a
plan c.

In most cases it is nothing happens, because that is the safest bet
isn't it?
When in doubt do nothing, else you are taking a shot in the dark.

In mission critical situations, well the show must go on so you are
heading for the moon,
at mach 5, well plan c, transmorphigate the flangethrasher in the
revitigator, it would appear that quantum fluctuations in the tachyon
field are distorting the space-time continuum, affecting the
time-manifold, sh*t happens.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 20:09 GMT
Yes been there done that got my flaps singed, but you know what helps
me to remember?
I think of the early test pilots of the X series rockets, that flew in
the upper atmosphere, and about the test pilot, who left the
atmosphere, doing oh I don't know, mach 6 or 7, and immediately
realized, that flaps don't work in space, because there is no
atmosphere, and so he no longer had a way, to steer or turn his rocket
plane, he just kept on sailing, and is there still.
(I assume unless he piled into Jupiter.)
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 20:38 GMT
Yes he became a space ornament, but without science and the sacrifices
of a few good men and women we would still be living in caves chipping
flint.
I don't know if you saw this yet or not...

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/

Successful civilian commercial spaceflight, Spaceship One, funded by
Allen (MSoft cofounder) flies to 62 miles (into space) twice in a week,
winning the prize of 10 million dollars.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 22:14 GMT
"Mission Control this is delta one niner do you copy?"
"Roger delta one niner, what's your ten twenty?"
"Um, TFR on that over"
lol

You know it's amazing how far they have come with radar don't you
think?
Remember the little blips as the hand sweeps across the screen?

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/gallery/flight_general/13p_boost
Image of flight 13P boost from Edwards AFB ground radar facility
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 23:44 GMT
No that's not us. We are well we are the _other kind.
For us it more like this...

"Mission control this is delta one niner, do you copy?"
"Roger delta one niner, what's your ten ten?"
"Uh, TFR on that over"
"Roger delta one niner, can you still see your hands over?"
"Roger that"
"Well then you are still there, proceed to...."
lol
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 00:37 GMT
You know, it's times like this, that I wish I could explain to you,
what it is like.
I'm a scientist, a field commander of a sort, under cover, deep cover,
but not alone, by any means. There are lots of S3's here on good ol
terra firma and you will find them in all walks of life. Some of you
reading this are probably S3's. So you know of whence I speak. The only
framework for discussion that we have, is not really an earthly science
based framework, we have our own framework, that we use. Foreign to
most people. They wouldn't understand the terminology, the references
etc because they are outside their realm of experience, outside their
world view.
It must be nice I suppose, to be strapped into an X-15 though, being
dropped by a B-52 bomber, and feeling the rockets fire, and propel you
from mach.8 to mach 5 or 6, in a 80 to 120 second burn. It must be
thrilling. But then there is the 4 G's of accelleration, you feel on
your chest, which is like a fat lady from a circus sideshow act,
perched on your chest, for 80 to 120 seconds and you feel like you are
going to die.
You are thinking things like, well if I crash, at least the oxygen
cylinder beside me will freeze dry me, in a few seconds when it
explodes, so I won't suffer much. There is comfort in that, I am sure.

But for me, it is different, I have nothing to gain, by climbing into
an X-15, because all the results of that exciting ride, which are
outside the expected, can only be negative.

I have seen the things disintegrate, and they do disintegrate, when the
air flow, is not exactly streamlined. If that puppy, is not exactly
into the wind, if you start to tumble, you are not in a fixed wing
aircraft falling after a nose over, you are going 5 or 6 times the
speed of sound. It is just flllltttt.... and scattered debris
basically.

And there is this argument on-going whether we should even be sending
people into space at all, or if we should be just sending robots, and I
personally can't answer that question, because it is the human element
that makes it interesting.
So for us, it is also the human element that makes it interesting. We
just don't need the hardware, to get from a to b in that regard.

Given the choice, of climbing into an X-15, or doing what I do, which
is to fly the DeLorean in mindspace, I will fly the DeLorean any day of
the week.

What is the most I could hope to accomplish, as an X-15 pilot?

Well I will tell you it would never add up to one ounce of the
enjoyment I had today, as I walked to the liquor store, to pick up a 6
pack of Heinekens, and was stalked all the way there, and all the way
home, by a young goddess, yes a real honest to goodness goddess, who
didn't get to go one the DeLorean last night with us, so she made sure
by gar that I am going to take her with us tonight. She signed me and
signed me and signed me and made sure that I knew exactly what she was
telling me, and that she wanted to be included tonight. Wearing certain
colors, making all the hand gestures etc from our own S3 sign language
we developed last year.
And we will. A bunch of us, will get into the DeLorean tonight, like we
did last night and we will go on an adventure. Last night we went back
in time, to days of the Dick Van Dyke show, and snogged Mary Tyler
Moore.Now you can't beat that with a stick if you ask me. Sure it's
science, it is just not the dangerous kind of science.
Does it acomplish anything oh yes it sure does, but not the tangible
sort of hardware high tech improvements that people want, it
accomplishges things like it makes people happy and content.
Hardware we can have any hardware we want, without having to put hammer
to steel.
So what does it benefit us, as a group, to risk life and limb, have
some fat lady sit on us for 80 to 120 seconds, well it would serve no
purpose. Sure it would be exciting, so is a roller coaster, but you
know, until we learn to live with each other, in some semblance of
harmony, then what would the hardware be used for except for some sort
of weaponry anyways.
The real interesting thing might be to tow the space station into orbit
around the moon.
That might be interesting.
Unless NASA can show the people something interesting, something
special, something wild and exciting, something extraordinary,
fantastic, remarkable, wonderous, like finding an alien artifact on the
moon, or finding anything that has
a human element in it, beside yet more rock and maybe water under the
ground, they can't expect the people to buy into their dream.
If space is lifeless, dead, then it is just a rock quarry and who
cares? We already know what rocks consist of and we have the physics of
black holes and all that.
You see for us, we can go places in inner space as a group and
experience anything we can dream up and it costs nothing, and it is not
in any way dangerous, and it is fun.
That is where we are at. To me from my experience, it seems like a
better place to be.
It also seems light years ahead of climbing into a rocket and flying 62
miles above the earth, risking life and limb. If there is nothing out
there, then why bother?

If all there is is yet more nice photographs of planets, then we have
seen them in all sorts of colors. Do we need to see them some more? In
more and different colors?
I am just not getting it I suppose.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 01:23 GMT
I suppose one argument is, well when we have dirtied our nest we will
have to go to Mars and live there.
Well, maybe if you were to reproduce the conditions on Mars, in a
biosphere, and then try and live in it. I mean do a simulation, you
would soon find out that dirtying our nest, is not an option.
Promoting the idea that Mars might become a world as wonderful as a
walk in the woods here on a sunny day, is a pipe dream of huge
proportions.
We take what we have for granted and think maybe science will save us
from ourselves, but really haven't we looked out into deep space and
did we see anything living out there at all?

So isn't it simply this, we preserve the earth, or we die.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 01:50 GMT
And I suppose it is a huge philosophical argument regarding what
constitutes a life worth living and we can look back to ancient Egypt
and we can even surmise from their heiroglyphics that these people were
in contact with another race, from somewhere.
But they had no technology we know of, excpet for some rudimentary
tools and such, so they were probably in contact with a race, through
mindspace.
They had the ability to use their minds, by their high priests getting
into the so called sarcophogas in the great pyramid, which acted like a
sensory deprevation tank, and they could use their mind across time and
space and made contact with some other race and recording the things
they were shown in visions.
Their religion essentially. The river Styx and all that mystical myth
and heresay but also a few math formulas, which stayed with us over the
years.
So should SETI be looking for radio waves, when even a person such as
myself, can just conjure up a fully loaded DeLorean, get the girls into
it and off we go, without ever putting hammer to steel?
Does it not make more sense that any advanced civilization on our own
wavelength, would have mastered that by now.
If we can use electrons in our brains, and we can understand quantum
mechanics, and we can understand higher dimensions, and we know about
spacetime and wormholes, and all those things and we have only beeen at
it for what? 10,000 years since we got some sort of communication from
afar?
What would a race using radio waves have to tell us?
And when in our history, did we use radio waves for communication?
What the 50's?
Was that the golden age of radio?
A mere blip on the background of time here in our own timeframe.

We already have nuclear power. We have harnessed, the energy of the sun
basically and we do not have any reason not to be using it to create
all those wonderful glass bubble cities and to use it to make a
paradise on earth, but we don't. We make excuses, and we talk about
fossil fuels and the dangers of radioctive waste and
we live like cave dwellers fussing and fighting over silly things.
We could make some marvels today if we were inclined.
We just don't seem to be unified enough, to get together to really
leave our mark on the world.
Maybe that is what the Egyptians had that we do not.
They had leadership, and they had organization, and that allowed them
to accomplish things which we are unable to.
I am not saying we couldn't build the pyramids we could, but to leave
our mark, like they left theirs. Our dynasty, what will it be?
Pollution?
Overpopulation?
Maybe world peace, that we have managed to really get close to, but
what of the wonders?
Not these steel and concrete glass towers, they won't last a couple
hundred years.
Someone once told me, that what we left, will last billions of years.
We left space junk, on the moon.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 02:46 GMT
> Someone once told me, that what we left, will last billions of years.
> We left space junk, on the moon.

I'm not going to clean it up, you clean it up, it's your mess.
I'm going to just kick back, pick up Marion, that young goddess who
signed me today, pick up 4 or 5 other goddesses from Hollywood, and we
are going to go to our airship, a giant cruise liner in the sky, which
we constructed in mindspace, and we are going to use the facilities,
the hot tub, maybe go to the buffet, and all that and just hang out
basically.
And when we are done, someone else will do the dishes, someone else
will change the sheets, and the next time we go there, it will be brand
new once again.

And even if we were all rich like Bill Gates, we couldn't have such a
marvel as our airship here on earth. There would be storms, sending us
this way and that, there would be some reason, like taxes, that we
couldn't go there and just have fun.

You should see it, it is a marvel. And we have friends also, from who
knows where, who go there as well, and just hang out, as if it were a
real place to be. Sitting in the dining hall, walking down the halls,
working as whatever in their blue jackets and slacks with the stripe
down the leg, and anything we want, we just have to order from room
service.

We get there in the DeLorean, we have two of them, and it has a garage
and bay doors,
and we have been going there almost once a week, for over a year.

Needless to say the motivation of our kind, to get out there and drag
rocks to build a pyramid? Well we are just a little bit spoiled in that
regard.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 04:04 GMT
You know I suppose, that if they didn't have the Star Ship Enterprise,
they wouldn't have had the holodeck. What the heck were they looking
out the windows for though, when all the fun really would be in there?
And that says it all in a nutshell.
Where rationality breaks down, and you climb into an X-15 rocket.

What wre the crew searching for outside the ship, and if they found it,
could it possibly be as marvellous as what they would have found within
the holodeck, if they had fertile imaginations?
What would they find outside?
Isn't it almost always danger, and hardship, and things to fight, to
beat, to win, to conquer, those are the S2 concepts, and they are
generally quite painful.
Pain being a signal to the brain, that you shouldn't be doing that.
Yet it gets glorified, into a great challenge, well in real terms,
people would be in the holodeck, living their dreams not outside
fighting and killing each other and being killed.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 06:41 GMT
"Well then you are still there, proceed to your destination delta one
niner"
"but what about the"
"your whining has been duly noted, proceed to"
"But it's just that"
"I am putting a checkmark beside your name Rick"
"OK ok, I'm going, hey listen what are you doing later, I could
spin by in the DeLorean and pick you up, a little wine a little dinner"
"That would be nice"
"Hey listen about that checkmark"
"What checkmark"
"see you after 12"
"yeah baby"
donstockbauer@hotmail.com - 12 Mar 2006 02:46 GMT
> Although I think I understand your point, two-value logic has great
> strength and utility.  For instance, that computer you are using is
> made possible because of this system of 0/1 - on/off - t/f logic.

>>>>>The excluded middle is a concept which has great utility. Some situations are not only true/false.  Especially complex ones.
>
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> A rough (and somewhat crappy) analogy is the old statement:  "This
> statement is false", which cannot be assigned a truth-value.

>>>>>>>>>Yes, Godel's theoerm is built on the Epimenides paradox, "This staement is false"; it is a very complex extension of it.  And stictly speaking Godel's original theorem only appies to the Principia Mathematica.  However, it has analogs in many different areas.
>
> Anyways, it's been a long time since my last logic class, so I am
> probably garbling some of this.  But the basic idea that these systems
> and even the meta-systems which analyze them are flawed is pretty much
> accepted at this point.

>>>>>>>>>> Flawed, yes, but not unusable.  GT is a self-referential paradox.  It's a consequence of a system being very rich and powerful.    The key is to learn to deal with it. It's a small price to have to pay to have access to virtually unlimited knowldege, having to deal with self-ref messiness.  Self-ref is what makes us intelligent.  It's what rose us above the apes.  Once a system achieves self-ref, stand back.

- Don
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 10 Mar 2006 22:25 GMT
> No they are not those cute fuzzy little creatures that Cyrano Jones
> gave to Ohura, on the bridge of the Enterprise.
[quoted text clipped - 96 lines]
> which he built into his ideas.
> http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc279&image=23569_DreamScape.jpg

(Oops forgot to crosspost it, he doesn'r read this trashy physics
stuff.)

You know, I don't want to be a nit picker Mike (Myers) but I sort of
invisioned it
to be more, well,
less like this...
http://tinyurl.com/j75y8
and more like this...

http://img135.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc278&image=22945_paradise1.jpg

http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc167&image=23132_TheFacility.jpg

http://img145.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc279&image=23569_DreamScape.jpg

Um, youre fired.
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 06:17 GMT
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=57049452&cdi=0

Hi Donald.

What he said Mike. lol
rick_sobie@hotmail.com - 11 Mar 2006 06:23 GMT
rick_so...@hotmail.com wrote:
> http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=57049452&cdi=0
>
> Hi Donald.
>
> What he said Mike. lol
I am not over compensating. Shut~up.
No I am not listening to elevator music, I am listening to rock and
roll. Frank Sinatra is rock and roll. Is so. Is so.
Do fat bastard for me.
lol
 
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