Let me rephrase the last sentence. Thinking is the object of a thinking subject. This is the problem of phenomenology: consciousness studying itself, a...
58941
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 7, 2013 3:47 pm
Bill, I see how your group of specialists reduced risk for both themselves, each other, and their patients. The advantage of having practitioners as members of...
58940
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 7, 2013 1:55 am
I mean that the instruments which measure brain activity and which inform us about how and what our brains are doing are themselves products of our thinking....
58939
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 7, 2013 1:02 am
I would take it that the "mainframe" is everything other than the brain. It is the stuff to which we are connected. Like the computer in your car is ...
58938
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 6, 2013 11:48 pm
The mainframe into which each brain is connected is the brain itself? Can you clarify, since it seems you are not describing the mainframe into which all...
58937
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 6, 2013 11:03 pm
Mary, I now also check the "junk mail". There are a lot of automatic reflexes. For example, touching a hot pan would produce an automatic reaction to pull...
58936
William
bhvwd
Jan 6, 2013 9:59 pm
... I was always fearful of killing a patient. As time went on dentistry became a more multidiciplinary effort. The old days of just having a do it all dentist...
58935
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 6, 2013 9:02 pm
Bill, This is interesting because an argument for a speculated gums-heart connection occurred to me as an example of interconnectedness. Do statistics show...
58934
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 6, 2013 8:33 pm
eduard, Yahoo sends a portion of our group e-mails into the spam folder; it's a flawed system. Sorry, if I'm repeating myself, but biochemical algorithms are...
58933
William
bhvwd
Jan 6, 2013 5:46 pm
In January the house and senate will be in session five days,in February they will meet eleven days. White House sources say the administration will probably...
58932
William
bhvwd
Jan 6, 2013 2:41 am
58931
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 6, 2013 1:35 am
There is a Chinese magician or is it a magician who was doing a trick in China .. can't recall. He had this trick of passing a $10 bill through a window. I...
58930
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 6, 2013 1:19 am
I seriously doubt that the functioning of the kidney can rival that of the brain. Yes a dead kidney leads to a dead brain, but then so will a scratch on your...
58929
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 6, 2013 1:15 am
Mary, Sorry, this one went to my junk mail and I only found it today. Algorithms are mental scripts. They play out in a fashion to give a result. It may well...
58928
William
bhvwd
Jan 6, 2013 12:43 am
58927
William
bhvwd
Jan 6, 2013 12:24 am
58926
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 5, 2013 10:24 pm
It doesn't mean agreement is necessary, inevitable, or desirable....
58925
William
bhvwd
Jan 5, 2013 10:04 pm
A deeper understanding of various individual systems can lead to a wider understanding of the cosmic system.My Ecology professor was a botanist but knew...
58924
Dick.
somerset_2
Jan 5, 2013 8:51 pm
If Dick can communicate? [ In existlist@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" wrote: If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the...
58923
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 5, 2013 8:37 pm
In nature, systems evolve or follow basic laws like a galaxy system. A natural system might be considered intelligent in the sense that it decides what will...
58922
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 5, 2013 8:35 pm
Yes, my point exactly, and big brains have yet to improve on it, only recklessly exploit it....
58921
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 5, 2013 8:16 pm
Depends upon what you mean by an ecosystem. If you mean a system to get rid of waste in an ecological appropriate fashion ... instead of throwing stuff into...
58920
William
bhvwd
Jan 5, 2013 5:56 pm
58919
William
bhvwd
Jan 5, 2013 5:41 pm
58918
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 5, 2013 4:42 pm
If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the power of love and intelligence as the defining attributes of the new...
58917
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 5, 2013 3:05 pm
Does a system design itself? Is each part intelligent? Does a brain merely perceive systems or does it influence them, and does the system influence the brain?...
58916
Mary
josephson45r
Jan 5, 2013 3:05 am
Who designs an ecosystem?...
58915
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 5, 2013 1:17 am
"System" is also an engineering perspective. You can't design an airplane that is heavier than the withstand capability of runway on which it is to land. ...
58914
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 5, 2013 12:22 am
'sustained incoherence' Tyler Durden: Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say...
58913
eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 5, 2013 12:12 am
It might rival the brain [which I doubt], but the kidney doesn't think. I am Jack's failing kidney. I kill Jack. eduardathome ... From: William Sent: Thursday,...
