(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)
Chris
rasputin_ at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 14 22:52:53 PST 2005
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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