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Posted by: Angus Cunningham 01/18/2008, 12:31:48 (About author)
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I have briefly read the abstract at Nature Science Journal of the Harvard team's work, referenced by DWA, in storing information by means of the staccato passage of a light pulse through a Bose-Einstein condensate. I assume this work is directed toward the search for a computer operating with light pulses and agree that it appears to be very promising, and I note the special contribution of a Danish woman to the team which did the work. Here at the TT Debating Forum we have concern, do we not?, with dissolving, hopefully in perpetuity, the KISS virus of thunk thought. This mental virus seems to me to have had its ancestral psychological root in the interpretation of the story of Occam and his philosophical Razor as philosophical support for the presumption of vitality (for human life as a whole) of the KISS "morality" syndrome: satisfaction of the desires of materially established and/or mainstream people to reject any propositions that are not "simple" is paramount. Crossbowman has very well articulated that, in a world in which Newtonian physics was all that was conceived, Occam made both logical and rational sense. But now that DWA, the vital force behind Remi's adding his favourable comment concerning Occam's Razor (whether gilleted or wilkinsonian) in the spotting of baloney, has found himself cause to reverse that papalistic notion, might we not ask that DWA and Remi get together to revise the Occam/baloney passage in the TT's Debating Position Statement? Was Baloney an Irishman? If so, can we be sure there would be enough Irish blood in the Remi-DWA combination suggested in this post to assure impartiality -- without resort, beyond the English Guinness Pale, to Celtic? Coherence is not a subject to be taken with a light KISS, is it? what's this |
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