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“I’m shocked, shocked …” to find out that supposed adults would use children in this manner. I’ve never heard of such a thing before in my life!

Nice! This edition would be a nice addition to your library. It is currently the most collectible Britannica. I’d be willing to bet that it will continue to be sought after in the future as well.

In one sense it depends on your purpose for having the Britannica. It has been argued by many, and I tend to agree, that the 11th /12th Edition (3 new volumes were produced in 1922 = 12th Edition) is one, if not the most interesting. It is interesting in that it gives you a grand picture of a world view that preceded but did not survive WW I.…[Read more]

Yes, there are a few things on archive.org written by Howard Scott.

If you are interested in the literature of Technocracy … On archive.org there are a number of issues of The Technocrat periodical dating from the 1930s through the 1960s. Interestingly there are regional editions of this periodical e.g. Great Lakes Technocrat, Northwest Technocrat and so on …There are also a number of early books on…[Read more]

Heeeee!

Nice! , but you misspelled “why” should be “vy”. 🙂

As to the first what you suggest, merging, sounds plausible. However, I’m not sure how one distinguishes between “working together” and truly being “merged” which I think you are hinting at in your question (merged or blended). My suspicion is that what we call consciousness is a result of a particular “ability” (the conversion of sensory input…[Read more]

oops Mea Culpa … sorry about that … it was early in the morning. 🙂
… cognition could be something other than computation.

… How can the tire blow-out if we didn’t tell it to do so? 🙂

… Thanks ML! … from your keyboard to the Gods Ears!
[ and by Gods here I mean the honorable and esteemed committee members or as I like to refer to them “The Three” ]
Nine are hard to come by now-a-days. 🙂

… on track for December. 🙂

… please notice that the first few seconds of this clip provides indisputable evidence that Bolton had been read into The Secret Space Program. If I could calculate the number of neurons in my brain filled with Mel Blanc voices … it would probably be a very scary number. I tried, but couldn’t find a copy to post of one of the few cartoons…[Read more]

… apologies for the additional post, meant to put this reference at the end of the last post.
… a somewhat long read but well worth the time especially if you want an argument that cognition (mind – or at least this one important aspect of it — of course depending on how you understand mind to begin with).
Van Gelder, Tim – What Might…[Read more]

(TT in the previous post and this post should be read as “pi”) TT[sub 1] sentences are formed from the basic relations of arithmetic (+, * (dot), and <) constants 0, 1, 2, 3, … and variables X {sub 0], X [sub 1], X [sub 2], … by (a) first joining these entities into meaningful ( i.e. in math and logic noted as WFF [well formed formulas] using…[Read more]

Absolutely a topic of interest for not only myself but quite a few others in a number of fields as well. I hope that folks would read all the way to the end of this article where they would read “The mind can’t be just a computer, Gödel demonstrated that fact and Turing tried to live with it.” A thread to follow: Lucas, J. R. – Minds, Ma…[Read more]

Thanks for the heads up! Not old news to me. Always post up. I’ll guarantee you that some of the 4000 or so souls in this community will not have seen the info. And as for me … it never hurts me to see something more than once.