ARRRRGH!! He's got your mind bent.PLSFIXKTHX! Sorry, but that is silly talk.
Hit the biochemistry books. You'll hurt
yourself thinking like that. Timecubes hoooo!
(Hit the biochemistry books. You'll hurt
yourself thinking like that. Timecubes hoooo!
Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:46,
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I do actually regret saying "semi-existence"it's not very objective of me.
Some things are briefly stable - windspeeds, orbits - and it's a subjective judgment whether or not a particular one is stable enough to be declared to exist. I suppose the thing to do with a gene or a meme is to declare some arbitrary context, the same way that you might say windspeed as measured over the course of a minute, which would be different from the speed measured over an hour. Either could be used when talking about the speed "now". Stable states definitely exist in an objective way, but they exist as part of a continuum. The pockets of stability aren't just in our imaginations, but the limits of the pockets are. Come to think of it, most things are like this a bit. Objects, for instance. We just have a lot of very customary conventions for assuming where edges go.
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Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:51,
archived)
Some things are briefly stable - windspeeds, orbits - and it's a subjective judgment whether or not a particular one is stable enough to be declared to exist. I suppose the thing to do with a gene or a meme is to declare some arbitrary context, the same way that you might say windspeed as measured over the course of a minute, which would be different from the speed measured over an hour. Either could be used when talking about the speed "now". Stable states definitely exist in an objective way, but they exist as part of a continuum. The pockets of stability aren't just in our imaginations, but the limits of the pockets are. Come to think of it, most things are like this a bit. Objects, for instance. We just have a lot of very customary conventions for assuming where edges go.
Noted.Don't take my over the top reactions as more than that.
Sloppy language of that sort can get me ranting for hours. [/;-D
on edit: Much better and more useful. That's more like tool making, not assigning the screwdriver as hammer and nail.
(Sloppy language of that sort can get me ranting for hours. [/;-D
on edit: Much better and more useful. That's more like tool making, not assigning the screwdriver as hammer and nail.
Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:54,
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That's alright.I apologise for doing all my writing in the form of edits, it's a compulsion.
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Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:00,
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As is mine to jump at false premisses.My apologies if I upset you in any way.
( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:24,
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