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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
Organization: The Armory
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 05:34:58 GMT
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In article <3c26jh$rj2@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>In <D0E6G5.2w7@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
>>In article <3bvnp1$cum@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>>>In <D0CDwv.AB0@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
>
>>>>To insist that I am unconscious would be to lie. But what I am saying is
>>>>that the "thing" among all our other functions which declares that it is
>>>>"us" and feels it to be ourself, is just one function, and there is NO way
>>>>to show that it does more than preside over meetings at which it simply
>>>>adopts what the others vote for, and is not, itself, a voting member!
>
>>>If I pour hot water onto ice cream, the ice cream melts.  I want to say
>>>that the heat from the hot water melted the ice cream.  You want to insist
>>>that the heat did nothing of the kind.  Instead, in your view, the heat
>>>does no more than preside at meetings at which it is a non-voting
>>>member, and the kinetic energy of the molecules does all the work.
>
>>I hold neither to be what you call "true".
>
>The word "true" appeared exactly twice in the article I am responding
>to.  Once was the sentence just quoted.  The other was a quotation from
>you several messages back.
>
>You haven't the least idea what I call to be "true".
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Boy, you've got THAT right! And you don't dare TELL anybody either, for
fear they'd laugh hysterically!!!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

