Re: Neural netss (was Re: death of the mind.)

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:47:56 +0100

In article <41546748.1463442@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
<lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes
>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:58:27 +0100, David Longley
><David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>>In article <41532b7c.43462373@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
>><lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes
>>>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:22:52 +0100, David Longley
>>><David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Leaving aside the usual silly, phobic abuse, you (Verhey, Zero etc) need
>>>>to grasp that all education is "problematic", so naturally the science
>>>>of behaviour is "problematic" too.
>>>
>>>David, I'm somewhat confused here.
>>
>>If only you'd meditate on that little insight.
>>
>>>How do you segue from the
>>>proposition that all education is problematic (quotes deleted because
>>>the word is perfectly clear) to the non sequitur that the science of
>>>behavior is also problematic too?
>>
>>It really is a waste of time given your history. You distort anything
>>you are told in the vain belief that you're being imaginative and
>>creative. This seems to be a common misconception about the nature of
>>creativity here. The fact is that you have to put a lot of time and
>>effort in first - years, decades. Patty, for one seems to have the same
>>sort of misconceptions. These are popular but they're misguided. This is
>>why neither of you come up with anything new, and why you keep getting
>>so much wrong.
>
>Did you mean to answer my question, David, or merely babble on
>evasively the way evolution has conditioned you to behave?
>

We're all a product of our genetic and environmental histories Lester.
What some of us try to do is share the more productive consequences of
those histories with others. Some of us *do* appreciate that we are
animals, and as creatures of our environments (cultures) we also
appreciate that there are benefits to be shared from how we have been
trained.

At times, you've shown brief moments of lucidity. You should work on
those, trying to let others help you to increase their frequency at the
expense of the metaphysics and other forms of abuse which usually
characterise so many of your posts (and I suspect your behaviour
elsewhere).

>>Saying it isn't so, won't make it not so.
>>--
>>David Longley
>
>
>Regards - Lester 

-- 
David Longley

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