thehacker Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 Originally posted by ichi_gami I find it amazing the frequency of struthian sentiment displayed in this forum.ichi oh how the cerebral do wax trival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 Originally posted by ichi_gami play cars and garages :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 Originally posted by thehacker yes, i am a cunning linguist.My name is Rob. James Rob.Linguistics and AI are fundamentally related - as are linguistics and digital signal processing (which is currently a stepping stone of mine towards computational neuroscience). reason being is that NLP (natural language processing - getting the meaning out of ordinary humanspeak instead of dumb computer languages) is so extraordinarily difficult that nobody has even began to come close. however, we know that there can be machines which can do it because there already are: people. communication is the first thing that allows any organism, digital or biological, to rise above the level of dumb beast. (I'm thinking Hunter S. Thompson here). In fact, many linguists and brain theorists believe that language is the ROOT of intelligence. I definitely don't know much about linguistics, but it is something that i'm extremely interested in. Especially since Noam Chomsky also has the pleasure of being the only intelligent critic of the US that I have ever seen published (though now he's really starting to piss me off because he is simply spouting the same rhetoric as everyone else. just because someone has an unpopular opinion is not an excuse to be closed minded)One day we should all meet and get into some incredible "who we are and why we're here" discussions. i'd love to hear what everyone has to say.peaz,rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 Originally posted by thehacker :laugh: don't forget the ever popular "client-server action" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 by the way if you ever need a new friend check out http://www.alicebot.orgvixxen: wow look at what you started! (and you thought it was a stupid question) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi_gami Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 Originally posted by dialectics One day we should all meet and get into some incredible "who we are and why we're here" discussions. i'd love to hear what everyone has to say.peaz,rob I am unsure, sometimes, of exactly who I am... and sometimes why I am here. What I know for sure is that I have had a lot of fun and met a lot of interesting people along the way. And for that, I'm pretty thankful.ichi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 16 Report Share Posted October 16 ichi:i believe that life is a precious gifti believe that we are meant to experience EVERYTHING that life has to offeri believe that love is the only thing we will be able to take with us after we diei believe that we are not even a blip on the scale of significance of the universei believe that art and science are inseperablei believe that humankind's greatest feature is the ability to CREATE. in that respect i believe that we just might have been created in God's imagei believe above all that leading a good life can be accomplished by making millions of tiny decisions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 i believe...that everything we experience is one VAST timelinemoving so incredibly slow that in fact it lasts forever,and that what we thing of as our human lifetimeis like a single frame a feature length film.there are more parts to this theory,and it blows the doors off string theoryand quantum physics and religion andbelief in reincarnation.i'd love to sit around with a bunch of you all one day and break it down. it's a lot to wrap your head around. i've tried and failed many times until one night i got the basics on paper.it's almost as hard as trying to clear your head of all other thoughts and just consider the concept of infinity.try it some time.try to imagine INFINITY.try to imagine FOREVER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 and while we're at it...here's another doozy:nothing exists.everything we experience is a shared vision.the physical world is merely a sensation we imagine.there is no distinction between awareness and sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xpander Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Originally posted by thehacker i believe...that everything we experience is one VAST timelinemoving so incredibly slow that in fact it lasts forever,and that what we thing of as our human lifetimeis like a single frame a feature length film.there are more parts to this theory,and it blows the doors off string theoryand quantum physics and religion andbelief in reincarnation.i'd love to sit around with a bunch of you all one day and break it down. it's a lot to wrap your head around. i've tried and failed many times until one night i got the basics on paper.it's almost as hard as trying to clear your head of all other thoughts and just consider the concept of infinity.try it some time.try to imagine INFINITY.try to imagine FOREVER. can we really do this?It's been ages since I wrapped my aching head around some good metaphysics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 i'm down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanna11 Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 i believe i can fly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Originally posted by dialectics i'm down iiight.with this be With, or Without... assistance? i'm cool without.just need good cider/winecooler/wine/beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Originally posted by deanna11 i believe i can fly that's nice hacker, xpander, anyone else who is interested: yuppers i think we should be doing this. assistance is good but later on in the evening - i'd like to at least get STARTED on a somewhat serious note.rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi_gami Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Originally posted by deanna11 i believe i can fly I believe you can too... I think I've seen it happen once or twice.see ya on Friday?ichi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanna11 Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 ichi, Friday? at Lush? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi_gami Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Naaah, me being a lush @ America... Got a house party to hit up on b'klyn afterwards, dunno if I'll be doing city sites beforehand....ichi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanna11 Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 ooh, i wish i could go, but i'm committed to Lush that night. drop by if you get the chance; i know some people there would love to see you *ahem-me* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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