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>From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: Algorithms+DataStructures!=FEELINGS
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Date: 6 Nov 91 19:12:34 GMT
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In article <BARRY.91Oct23094655@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
>Notwithstanding the fact that my brain is made of meat instead of silicon,
>it is nevertheless my principal information-processing organ. Information
>from the world in which I am embedded streams in through my senses and
>lands on various lobes where it is parsed and decoded.  Some of this
>information stream is of sufficient import that it places my brain and
>mind into notable states:  Alarm, Amusement, Anxiety, Confusion, Curiosity,
>Excitement, Fascination, Intrigue, Jealousy, Puzzlement, Vexation, and on
>beyond Zebra.

That makes you an threaded multitasker, with task pre-emption bound to
interrupt priorities, and task-switching driven asynchronously by interrupts.

So, I guess that's what it means to feel. :)


