(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)

[Chris]

Have you ever heard of a particular type of monkey trap? I have never heard 
anything but anecdotal evidence as to whether it really works.

--
"[W]hat everyone does not know, so that it counts as differential knowledge, 
that is a glorious thing to be concerned with. What everyone knows on the 
other hand, so that the difference is the trivial one of how it is known, 
that is a waste of effort to be concerned about - for one cannot possibly 
become self-important through knowing it."



>Or another similar scenario.  I just don't think it is possible for a 
>situation to occur
>in which anybody can dither forever, because of everyone else doing other 
>things.
>But maybe a dead-lock breaker was built-in by evolution.  Doesn't seem very 
>likely tho'
>
>~Maru
>One more thing!
>I was reading in my Star Wars collection t'other day, when, en route to 
>Boba Fett's
>story in Tales from Jabba's Palace, to see whether I could place anymore of 
>the anecdotes,
>an excruciating name caught my eye.
>It was remarkably similar to yours.  A relation?
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