Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA19230 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 1 May 2002 07:15:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20020501061037.90714.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Trupeljak Ozren <ozren_trupeljak@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: teleology and language To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <00a901c1f0ce$050dbc40$5e2ffea9@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--- Philip Jonkers <philipjonkers@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Ozren:
> > This is what I call "optimised languages". They are really really
> good
> > at what they do - but their general usefulness in everyday life is
> > significantly below the one of the language you use when you go
> > shopping or courting or teaching your children ethics.
>
> Speaking of courting, go watch `A beautiful mind' for a typical
> example
> of a very mathematical mind trying to hit on a chick by sticking to
> his guns. Girls and (formal) logic, mutually exclusive? :-)
>
> Phil.
>
Heh, yes, saw it a month or two ago..:) Notice though, the chick
actually understood the language of math well enough on her own..:)
Speaking of which, is anyone familiar with the research on the
capabilities of human mind to detect pseudorandom patterns? I was
recently part of a pshychology experiment on short term memory where I
surprised both myself, the lab attendant and the p. in question by
doing a "John Nash" routine in real-time. After being subjected to 10
minutes of "random" pattern of letters appearing on the screen, I
achieved a 100% success on predicting when is the sequence going to
repeat itself. All of this was achieved while most of my consciouss
mind was thinking about my grad paper due next day...
And I don't believe in ESP...
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There are very few men - and they are exceptions - who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.
Carl von Clausewitz
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