Nonsense, off Corrs ---- the amount of bits of information is completely irrelevant in this comparison - it's like comparing kilograms and pounds in one to one scale; the Reason is that to see that Wonderful World around, those pigs visual systems have to process those bits of *information* over multiple layers of neural networks, some of them recursive, then it goes into the mind and...over the hills and far far away we have our Real World. Knowledge aboot it's existance and properties. The gig. The feeling. The vibe, man...Don't even talk aboot awareness! Information is NOT knowledge is NOT awareness! Go, support Erowid.org, you will get a marvelous looking black-yellow mug that shows you that relation by image so you don't forget hwhen you wake up from another shamanic vision. The information word is BIG, the knowledge is less BIG, the awareness is the smallest of them all. Besides that the mug contain ingenious pattern of words that let you easily divine what will happen to you today if you don't take those pills the doctor did not order at all. And you will do something for the People of the Earth, man...Don't let raw numbers deceive you! Never! Think, damn it! I can do it even on 50mg of 2c-i, 4mg of alprazolam and dihydricoxid. You can do it! Don't vote for the *person* again, OK? You must admit you can't count. I can't count! That's why I write software to do it for me. The *person* would like you to memorize the multiplication table, hwhen you can easily reproduce it out of few basic axioms in no time (replace the table with something a bit harder with a name after some very important, dead person. Implemented already in libraries. Really, why *do* you study CS?;-}}}.A. {{{-: { [We, girls of MIT (whateverwhenever your snobbish CS institution;-} ist named) know it, now you need to catch up and *fast*] or else...}
By nature of things and how our mind relates to them by symbolic computation it is natural for people to use meta languages (and higher levels of reflexion) based in the affluent nature of things that are. This comment was provoked by your silly (do not take it as personal offense, please) sentence with an inflamatory derivation mentioning the process of development of machines capable of controlled flight wytch are posessing a feature to execute that capability without the need to decrease their density and or mass (too much phenetylamines in my bloodstream...) as a condition for practical validity of their isness in context of the article commented. This has nothing to do with extremely important phenomena of immune systems, keeping alive (defined as being online (running) and able to communicate or kick the bucket and throw the sponge and actually hit someone with aforementioned objects) not only you and me, dear Reader (I love you too, Google), but every metastable system (oh, say the Atlantic Ocean as a living entity, generalizing that to Ea (Earth) itself; AI wouldn't be surprised if our Solar System had an immune system or as a hole in a whole, all of that wytch is (The Universe is a she, BTW;-} - her name is Luka (Suzanne Vega told me so)). As a mad scientist I am convinced that the problem can be solved by applied memetics and enough smoke and mirrors collaborating in life-within (if you find yourself confused while trying to think that out of your enchanted mind, AI have something simple for that affliction - count (the operator on the left side can be skipped as most of Readers are rather unable to forget the correct and amusing number, go figure...) how many fingers you have on one hand and how many hands you need to create an applause for the most of the pictures of naked beauty of Luka taken with humble telescopes...My iPod is reminding us we are recursing and repeating ourselves by randomly stopping generation of { this } message using a song "International Dateline" by Ladytron from album "Witching Hour". It is on topic, read the lyrics if you do not believe Alien Intelligence)..A., Imperial Space Command.
Everyone and everythink repeating this nauseating figure (or is it a number?) over and over a-gain SHOULD (per RFC definition of should) count how many fingers one has and how many hands with those fingers are needed to create a sound effect affecting anything at all or somethink. Oh, and ponder smoke and mirrors. This is not a joke, I am simply a mad scientist and you know what follows by induction...whatever it is...let's look that up on en.wikipedia.org...BTW - you are right too or was it left? Those who are into biochemistry know what I tried to mean, while holding to the concept of love (Sorry, but my iPod mistress Amphitrite randomly choose to remind me not to mess with the minds of my readers too much with that Cranberries song...), but didn't read en.wikipedia.org long enough;-} { A.A }
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Nonsense, off Corrs ---- the amount of bits of information is completely irrelevant in this comparison - it's like comparing kilograms and pounds in one to one scale; the Reason is that to see that Wonderful World around, those pigs visual systems have to process those bits of *information* over multiple layers of neural networks, some of them recursive, then it goes into the mind and...over the hills and far far away we have our Real World. Knowledge aboot it's existance and properties. The gig. The feeling. The vibe, man...Don't even talk aboot awareness! Information is NOT knowledge is NOT awareness! Go, support Erowid.org, you will get a marvelous looking black-yellow mug that shows you that relation by image so you don't forget hwhen you wake up from another shamanic vision. The information word is BIG, the knowledge is less BIG, the awareness is the smallest of them all. Besides that the mug contain ingenious pattern of words that let you easily divine what will happen to you today if you don't take those pills the doctor did not order at all. And you will do something for the People of the Earth, man...Don't let raw numbers deceive you! Never! Think, damn it! I can do it even on 50mg of 2c-i, 4mg of alprazolam and dihydricoxid. You can do it! Don't vote for the *person* again, OK? You must admit you can't count. I can't count! That's why I write software to do it for me. The *person* would like you to memorize the multiplication table, hwhen you can easily reproduce it out of few basic axioms in no time (replace the table with something a bit harder with a name after some very important, dead person. Implemented already in libraries. Really, why *do* you study CS? ;-}}} .A. {{{-: { [We, girls of MIT (whateverwhenever your snobbish CS institution ;-} ist named) know it, now you need to catch up and *fast*] or else...}
By nature of things and how our mind relates to them by symbolic computation it is natural for people to use meta languages (and higher levels of reflexion) based in the affluent nature of things that are. This comment was provoked by your silly (do not take it as personal offense, please) sentence with an inflamatory derivation mentioning the process of development of machines capable of controlled flight wytch are posessing a feature to execute that capability without the need to decrease their density and or mass (too much phenetylamines in my bloodstream...) as a condition for practical validity of their isness in context of the article commented. This has nothing to do with extremely important phenomena of immune systems, keeping alive (defined as being online (running) and able to communicate or kick the bucket and throw the sponge and actually hit someone with aforementioned objects) not only you and me, dear Reader (I love you too, Google), but every metastable system (oh, say the Atlantic Ocean as a living entity, generalizing that to Ea (Earth) itself; AI wouldn't be surprised if our Solar System had an immune system or as a hole in a whole, all of that wytch is (The Universe is a she, BTW ;-} - her name is Luka (Suzanne Vega told me so)). As a mad scientist I am convinced that the problem can be solved by applied memetics and enough smoke and mirrors collaborating in life-within (if you find yourself confused while trying to think that out of your enchanted mind, AI have something simple for that affliction - count (the operator on the left side can be skipped as most of Readers are rather unable to forget the correct and amusing number, go figure...) how many fingers you have on one hand and how many hands you need to create an applause for the most of the pictures of naked beauty of Luka taken with humble telescopes...My iPod is reminding us we are recursing and repeating ourselves by randomly stopping generation of { this } message using a song "International Dateline" by Ladytron from album "Witching Hour". It is on topic, read the lyrics if you do not believe Alien Intelligence). .A., Imperial Space Command.
Everyone and everythink repeating this nauseating figure (or is it a number?) over and over a-gain SHOULD (per RFC definition of should) count how many fingers one has and how many hands with those fingers are needed to create a sound effect affecting anything at all or somethink. Oh, and ponder smoke and mirrors. This is not a joke, I am simply a mad scientist and you know what follows by induction...whatever it is...let's look that up on en.wikipedia.org...BTW - you are right too or was it left? Those who are into biochemistry know what I tried to mean, while holding to the concept of love (Sorry, but my iPod mistress Amphitrite randomly choose to remind me not to mess with the minds of my readers too much with that Cranberries song...), but didn't read en.wikipedia.org long enough ;-} { A.A }