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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Language as Technology: A Phenomenological Study
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Neil Rickert asserts:

< >If I understand correct your definition of analog/digital language,
< >I can assume that telepathy is for you an analog language.
< >Why is this form of language dissantvantageus?
< 
<   Since there is no evidence supporting the existence of telepathy, you
< can call it digital or not as you see fit.  Such statements about something
< non-existent are meaningless.
< 
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<   Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
<   Northern Illinois Univ.
<   DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


You will never find "evidence" for some thing, such as telepathy or
emotions, since they are not "physical" in all their aspects, and are
therefore not amenable to the scientific process.

BTW, do black holes exist? They are there in classical General
Relativity theory. 

Gordon Joly                                       +44 71 387 7050 ext 3703
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