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Dave, Think of it this way: are you the same person you were at four years of age? At birth? Or have you developed heuristics over that time that are very different from the ones you had then? Yes; insufficient recollection to tell; and definitely not.. I have the same very basic intent and presenc...

This is getting a bit embarassing.. I'm really not playing thick. I'll sleep on that one and hopefully have something to make this argument move forward. Saying that is like saying I'm not the same person as I was when I started this reply. Of course you aren't. What a huge coincidence that him and ...

But you wave goodbye to yourself every night, and a facsimile takes your place every morning. Hmm no.. Saying that is like saying I'm not the same person as I was when I started this reply. What a huge coincidence that him and I (and me, hi!) are all different people and yet the same person. Really...

I've typed this much and now see that JohnSmith has mostly the same perspective. I don't have time to go thru my post to cull the redundant parts.. Gotta run for work. So it's not intentionaly written to get on your nerves.. But if you don't mind, have a look and tell me where I'm wrong. I don't see...

I don't see it either. The only copies of me I'd consider being me would be those thru whose eyes I could see at the same time as mine. Anything else is just a replica. Looking into the mirror I see myself.. If a copy of me was facing me, instead of a mirror, and mirrored everything I did, it would ...

I don't know that it's undetectable.. We'll know that it could be when we've got the physical brain integraly mapped out. I think there will be a lot for every day people to learn from once we know all there is to know empiricaly about the brain. I reckon that since absolute matter control is suppos...

They'd have to mean a gradual conversion to digital substrate..

Thanks.. My employer bought me a copy of Solidworks, and I'll probably get to play with Autocad in the computer labs when I get back to school this fall.

Building the complex web of analogy associations and templates in the cortex, associations and templates that make up an adult mind, takes TIME. Wouldn't AI not take so long to do this, in our own time perspective, considering how fast the substrate it'd be running on would allow it to think? I don...

There's a lot of information right here on the forums.. If you search for dodecahedron, you get these: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=289&highlight=dodecahedron http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=593&highlight=dodecahedron http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t...

Of course, once proven effective on adult offenders, the question becomes why not apply these techniques preventatively to children, which brings us full circle to the totalitarian's conniptions of joy. Let the kids choose for themselves.. Maybe with some buffer time like we have with legal drugs a...

Tombo, what tools do you use for those drawings? I've never done any, and it's currently not in my curriculum, but I'd like to learn how to on my own.

With all due respect.. What about all the other more or less different crop circle patterns?

MSimon you took the words right out of my mouth.. Especialy the bit about art and engineering. I think engineering is art constrained to reality.

I agree with blaisepascal, except I reckon the US govt and public would heavily back Bussard reactor research to considerably reduce the 10-15 years delay.