Re: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics

From: Robin Faichney (robin@ii01.org)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 13:19:02 BST

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:00:51AM -0700, J. R. Molloy wrote:
> From: "Robin Faichney" <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
> > Crap. You seem to be as ignorant of computing as of philosophy.
>
> Perhaps someday you'll understand why "analog computing" doesn't exist.

You've admitted that analog computers do exist. Your view that there
is no significant distinction between discrete and continuous systems
therefore stands exposed as a useless hypothesis.

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