Or, perhaps physical body are not absolutely important in the survival of the genes, and that the genes discard the body as soon as they assure their survival after reproduction. There must be certain advantage in the cycle of life and death to the gene. The high cost of duplicating, every so often, a new vehicle to carry itself must be well worth it to the genes in the evolutionary arm race.
It's only the id that needs the body, not the gene. We are looking at a new battlefield, where the id, in its effort for self preservation, interferes with the self preservation machinery of the gene.
While this is a cool idea, the main problem is that the range of operation and inteference may become an issue. The reason why your cellphone talks to the base tower is because the base tower has the antenna and the power to listen for and broadcast to your tiny cellphone. The base tower is also smarter in maximizing the use of bandwidth and juggle inteference among multiple cellphones. To put all those functionality into the cellphone effectively turn the cellphone into a base tower, with all its associate requirement and cost. However, one could use the human computer to provide the solution for neccessary functionality of the base tower, thus, there are cellphone with FSR (Family Service Radio ?) included. I do admit that if FSR has the ID/phone number protocol included, that would be really cool.
Not really. If teacher applies the paddles to the students, it will just disenfranchise the kids who are not doing well. Teachers should applies the paddles to the parents.
I have not read the book, but I think the grand parent have a good point. If you view the collective as one object, the complexity of that object greatly depends on the capability of its components to communicate, differentiate in task, retain memory...etc.. all of which requires very tight binding between the components. Human isn't a collection of very simple cells, we have very differentiated cells. While all cells have the same DNA master plan; they communicate with each other via mulplitude of complex physical, chemical and electrical channels. The most amazing organ we have, the brain, is highly organized with very tight and complex binding. Loosing the communication (the white matter) inside the brain, as in Alzheimer, and the brain is dead. Cellular automata also have very tight binding requirement. Very simple rule, but very tight binding nonetheless, enforced by the environment code.
I agree. Permission is important in law as well as in life. Permission is what separate a guess from a trespasser, a consensual encounter from rape, an authorised distributor from a file sharer. If one is unhappy with the current law, one come up with a thoughtful alternative and convince enough people to change it. The current system is built on top of laws and rationalizations way more thoughtful and workable than anything I have read so far.
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Or, perhaps physical body are not absolutely important in the survival of the genes, and that the genes discard the body as soon as they assure their survival after reproduction. There must be certain advantage in the cycle of life and death to the gene. The high cost of duplicating, every so often, a new vehicle to carry itself must be well worth it to the genes in the evolutionary arm race. It's only the id that needs the body, not the gene. We are looking at a new battlefield, where the id, in its effort for self preservation, interferes with the self preservation machinery of the gene.
While this is a cool idea, the main problem is that the range of operation and inteference may become an issue. The reason why your cellphone talks to the base tower is because the base tower has the antenna and the power to listen for and broadcast to your tiny cellphone. The base tower is also smarter in maximizing the use of bandwidth and juggle inteference among multiple cellphones. To put all those functionality into the cellphone effectively turn the cellphone into a base tower, with all its associate requirement and cost. However, one could use the human computer to provide the solution for neccessary functionality of the base tower, thus, there are cellphone with FSR (Family Service Radio ?) included. I do admit that if FSR has the ID/phone number protocol included, that would be really cool.
Not really. If teacher applies the paddles to the students, it will just disenfranchise the kids who are not doing well. Teachers should applies the paddles to the parents.
I have not read the book, but I think the grand parent have a good point. If you view the collective as one object, the complexity of that object greatly depends on the capability of its components to communicate, differentiate in task, retain memory...etc.. all of which requires very tight binding between the components. Human isn't a collection of very simple cells, we have very differentiated cells. While all cells have the same DNA master plan; they communicate with each other via mulplitude of complex physical, chemical and electrical channels. The most amazing organ we have, the brain, is highly organized with very tight and complex binding. Loosing the communication (the white matter) inside the brain, as in Alzheimer, and the brain is dead. Cellular automata also have very tight binding requirement. Very simple rule, but very tight binding nonetheless, enforced by the environment code.
Yep, but some time people can make consequence less severe in ways that no preventative measure could compensate. For example: suicide bomber.
I agree. Permission is important in law as well as in life. Permission is what separate a guess from a trespasser, a consensual encounter from rape, an authorised distributor from a file sharer. If one is unhappy with the current law, one come up with a thoughtful alternative and convince enough people to change it. The current system is built on top of laws and rationalizations way more thoughtful and workable than anything I have read so far.