Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:57:36 GMT

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:18:02 -0500, Wolf Kirchmeir
<wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>Lester Zick wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:32:40 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
>> <nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Lester Zick wrote:
>>>
>>>>How about the vacuum tube, Bob? Did QM make that work too? Can
>>>>classical physics account for that? They're both electron valves, one
>>>>in a gaseous substrate the other in a semiconductor substrate.
>>>
>>>The vacuum tube and the transistor work on different principles.
>>
>>
>> So the vacuum tube cannot be used for computers? Bob, you are a jerk.
>> You're not even smart enough to recognize the limits of stupidity in
>> yourself and your proclamations of ignorance.
>>
>
>You can make a computer out of tinkertoys - been done in fact, at MIT.
>So by your analogy, tinkertoys, vacuum tubes and transistors all work on
>the same principles.

So we couldn't make a tinker toy computer without QM? That seems to
have been Bob's rather curious point.

>(I won't comment on your persisting gratuitous rudeness. I'm not a
>psychiatrist, so I'm not qualified to comment on it.)

Well I'm certainly glad you didn't comment on it. Would you perhaps
prefer to comment on your own gratuitous rudeness instead? Or would
you prefer to pretend you are the heart and soul of equanimity instead
unjustly defiled by the slings and arrow of the unwashed heathen? You
are nothing if not the heart and soul of self reverential piety and
martyr to self righteousness. But I'd prefer not to comment on it.

Regards - Lester

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