Douglas Richard Hofstadter discussions, anyone?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 1, 2017, 10:23:53 PM2/1/17

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Feel free to start one.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 3, 2017, 10:05:47 AM2/3/17

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Oh well, guess not.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 5, 2017, 9:12:59 AM2/5/17

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Olly olly oxen free?

Mudge

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Feb 5, 2017, 11:09:45 PM2/5/17

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On 2017-02-05 14:12:59 +0000, Don Stockbauer said:

> Olly olly oxen free?

I need to think of something :)

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Don Stockbauer

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Feb 6, 2017, 12:33:13 AM2/6/17

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Over in facebook, they told me you had passed away.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 6, 2017, 9:32:08 AM2/6/17

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Believe nothing you read here.

Mudge

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Feb 6, 2017, 3:17:26 PM2/6/17

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On 2017-02-06 05:33:12 +0000, Don Stockbauer said:

taking longer than I thought to figure this out ;)

> On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 8:09:45 PM UTC-8, Mudge wrote:
>> On 2017-02-05 14:12:59 +0000, Don Stockbauer said:
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>>> Olly olly oxen free?
>>
>> I need to think of something :)
>>
>> --

>> Sprog of The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary)

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 6, 2017, 5:16:44 PM2/6/17

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You're dead.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 7, 2017, 10:16:14 AM2/7/17

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It's pretty sick posting imitating a dead person.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 8, 2017, 7:52:59 AM2/8/17

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Oh, well, the user groups are like the wild, wild West. Anything goes.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 17, 2017, 10:09:00 PM2/17/17

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I guess we'll wait around for this usergroup to die.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 20, 2017, 9:39:24 AM2/20/17

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Oh well I guess he's famous enough already.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 20, 2017, 5:24:08 PM2/20/17

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Please, Doug, please start posting here, only you can save your user group.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 21, 2017, 7:25:05 AM2/21/17

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You attract more flies with honey than vinegar. The trouble is then you've got a bunch of flies.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 22, 2017, 8:17:32 AM2/22/17

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Don't pay any attention to me. I'll just sit here continuing my game of solitaire.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 23, 2017, 10:33:25 AM2/23/17

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The World is too complex to try to figure out.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 23, 2017, 10:13:28 PM2/23/17

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Sonata for unaccompanied Stockbauer.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 23, 2017, 10:15:07 PM2/23/17

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OK, then: GEB. Does anyone want to discuss GEB?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 24, 2017, 3:27:54 AM2/24/17

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Would anyone like to discuss my left little toenail?

Why discuss anything?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 24, 2017, 9:26:14 AM2/24/17

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Please ignore all my previous posts to this user group.

The statements are inoperative.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 24, 2017, 8:15:18 PM2/24/17

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We could post to alt.fan.hofstadter, but it would be wrong.

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 26, 2017, 6:13:16 AM2/26/17

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Oh, well. Barn roofs to patch. Also, wood to chop and water to carry. After all, I am an aquarium. Aquarian? Aquarius?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 26, 2017, 3:15:14 PM2/26/17

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Just luv donating platelets. You know, tiny plates to Goodwill. Or Goodfortune?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 26, 2017, 3:22:36 PM2/26/17

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Barn roof patching coming along fine. Why is it that everyone tells
me to be careful? Unless I'm suicidal, doesn't that go without saying?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 26, 2017, 3:33:02 PM2/26/17

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As was said in High Plains Drifter - "WHO ARE YOU?????"

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 27, 2017, 12:26:53 AM2/27/17

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Who are you that imitates Mudge?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 27, 2017, 9:48:14 AM2/27/17

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So, how's the global brain doing this morning?

Don Stockbauer

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Feb 27, 2017, 10:14:56 AM2/27/17

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99.9999999% of all human dialogue is just filling time before we die.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 1, 2017, 8:05:28 AM3/1/17

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The United States can get along perfectly well without the rest of the globe, can't it?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 1, 2017, 6:21:39 PM3/1/17

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What's a more important question?

Can machines think? Or,

Can the Earth as a whole think?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 2, 2017, 10:49:55 PM3/2/17

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Boy, Hofstadter sure covered a lot of topics in his books, didn't he?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 7, 2017, 8:00:07 PM3/7/17

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Does Hofstadter ever have to wait in a noisy Denny's to get a meal?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 8, 2017, 9:25:30 AM3/8/17

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And then finally leave due to slow service?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 8, 2017, 8:31:44 PM3/8/17

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OH GOD THE HUMANITY!

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 9, 2017, 8:52:10 AM3/9/17

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What's the deal with all those people walking around in Escher prints?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 10, 2017, 9:04:16 AM3/10/17

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Is it OK to say "groovy" nowadays?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 10, 2017, 9:33:21 PM3/10/17

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Seems to me that things are getting more and more complex. Is that true?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 11, 2017, 9:41:50 AM3/11/17

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Could it be that the Earth is uniting into a single organism?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 12, 2017, 12:51:42 AM3/12/17

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Anyone wish to discuss Hofstadter topics?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 12, 2017, 11:12:47 AM3/12/17

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Did you know that Hofstadter's works display via the Turing Test that he possesses a large amount of intelligence?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 12, 2017, 7:21:32 PM3/12/17

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Did you know that the Turing test occurs all around you every day, not just during interrogation?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 13, 2017, 10:20:44 AM3/13/17

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Would anyone out there like to discuss the works of Douglas Richard Hofstadter?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 14, 2017, 10:38:48 AM3/14/17

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Oooooo ooooook! Eeeeeek eeeeeeek!!!!!

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 14, 2017, 11:05:59 PM3/14/17

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Not much use having a Hofstadter fan group if there's no discussion of Hofstadter now is there?

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Don Stockbauer

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Mar 15, 2017, 5:46:05 PM3/15/17

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Going once...

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 16, 2017, 7:40:02 AM3/16/17

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I'm so sorry about all this. I was having a bad dsy. Please move on.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 17, 2017, 9:33:36 AM3/17/17

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Please ignore everything in this thread: It's a total embarrassment.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 17, 2017, 7:25:31 PM3/17/17

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So is it possible the Global Brain solves all problems by raising the intellect of the entire planet?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 17, 2017, 9:15:15 PM3/17/17

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Is it is possible the galactic brain solves all galactic-level problems by raising the intellect of the entire galaxy?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 17, 2017, 11:16:41 PM3/17/17

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Is the Global Brain a 100% positive development, or are there some drawbacks to it?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 18, 2017, 2:16:53 AM3/18/17

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If you raise the intelligence of each human brain, that raises civilization's intelligence somewhat. Your really big gains come when you network them, because you form them into a brain-like structure.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 18, 2017, 10:04:50 AM3/18/17

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Did you know that discussion of the Global Brain raises its intelligence because that causes increased self-awareness, and increased self-awareness causes increased intelligence.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 18, 2017, 10:32:37 AM3/18/17

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An individual person has little chance of fully understanding the Global Brain, for it would be like a single neuron understanding the entire mind it helps form.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 18, 2017, 2:13:57 PM3/18/17

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What's the best way to prevent World War III? That would be for the Earth to become a living organism and develop the will to live.

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Don Stockbauer

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Mar 19, 2017, 2:59:29 AM3/19/17

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Does the global brain drive the earth irresistibly toward good?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 19, 2017, 9:54:52 AM3/19/17

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Sorry for all the babble. I was having a bad day.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 19, 2017, 10:35:39 PM3/19/17

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So Mudge, what's it like where you are?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 20, 2017, 8:02:55 AM3/20/17

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The previous statements in this thread are inoperative.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 21, 2017, 9:45:17 AM3/21/17

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I apologize for all the inappropriate posts made here. It would have been much better to have just left it all blank.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 23, 2017, 12:19:06 AM3/23/17

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On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 6:45:17 AM UTC-7, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> I apologize for all the inappropriate posts made here. It would have been much better to have just left it all blank.

This usergroup no purpose.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 23, 2017, 10:06:52 AM3/23/17

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Nobody here but us chickens.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 24, 2017, 10:53:49 AM3/24/17

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Why do aches and pains always come with old age?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 25, 2017, 8:08:49 AM3/25/17

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Perhaps Hofstadter's theories are so self evident they just don't need discussion?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 26, 2017, 10:25:01 AM3/26/17

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Perhaps Hofstadter's theories are so advanced they can't be discussed?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 26, 2017, 1:58:08 PM3/26/17

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Is it proper to think of Hofstadter topics while donating blood?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 27, 2017, 12:00:08 AM3/27/17

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Do you know anyone who is so obnoxious that the only way to deal with them is to joots?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 27, 2017, 9:50:57 AM3/27/17

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But he would think of something.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 27, 2017, 3:18:06 PM3/27/17

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When there's no one left to leave you, even you don't quite believe you, that's when nothing can deceive you.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 27, 2017, 3:19:59 PM3/27/17

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When that old gray wind is blowing, and there's nothing left worth knowing, then it's time you should be going.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 27, 2017, 11:31:00 PM3/27/17

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What does a dog do on its day off?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 28, 2017, 10:40:37 PM3/28/17

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Since living things are composed of smaller living things, and the Earth is composed of smaller living things, does the logic work out that the Earth is a living thing?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 29, 2017, 10:52:52 AM3/29/17

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How do you keep raving lunatics from posting on alt.fan.hofstadter??

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 30, 2017, 11:14:27 AM3/30/17

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Please join the conversation of one hand clapping.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 30, 2017, 11:45:08 PM3/30/17

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Successful lunar occupation disappearance tonight, ZC477 using the new RunCam camera.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 2:15:03 AM3/31/17

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Cs/occupation/occultation/

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 10:09:34 AM3/31/17

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I'd love to change the world,
But I don't know what to do.
So I leave it up to you.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 12:38:31 PM3/31/17

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How will I ever get an education,
Sittin' right back of Bobbie Ann Mason.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 5:21:08 PM3/31/17

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Perhaps an education in things they don't teach in school?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 5:23:42 PM3/31/17

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Ever get third-degree burns on your chest, shoulder and bicep from hot popcorn grease?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 5:28:53 PM3/31/17

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Error posting reply.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 5:35:57 PM3/31/17

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Ever get thrown off a horse like a sack of potatoes when you're six years old visiting a neighbor's ranch?

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 6:54:43 PM3/31/17

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Well, since apparently no one wants to discuss Hofstadterian topics, you'll be forced to listen to my dull, boring life.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 7:22:25 PM3/31/17

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If you don't wish to contribute to Hofstadter's user group don't feel bad, there's around
7 billion others like you.

Don Stockbauer

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Mar 31, 2017, 9:14:53 PM3/31/17

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Give me a lever and I can move the Earth

Give me the Global Brain configuration and 7 billion humans plus their machines and communication links and I can turn the Earth into a single living organism.

Things are getting more and more complex, aren't they?

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 1, 2017, 11:11:48 AM4/1/17

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Whatcha doin'? Slummin?

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 1, 2017, 11:15:14 AM4/1/17

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Once the global brain starts forming it's impossible to stop it, just like a black hole forming, any attempt to stop it just adds energy to the system and accelerates its formation. For the global brain communication is analogous to gravity for the black hole.

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 1, 2017, 11:40:41 AM4/1/17

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All communication helps form the global brain. Even communication against it.

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Don Stockbauer

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Apr 4, 2017, 10:31:27 PM4/4/17

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As the nuns used to tell us, "these are mysteries which will be revealed when we die."

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 4, 2017, 11:22:04 PM4/4/17

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So now we have tremes. I wonder if Hofstadter has addressed them anywhere?

Tremes
513 Pecan Shuck Disease Road
Old Dime Box, TX 78478

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 4, 2017, 11:33:22 PM4/4/17

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Using Google to try to find treme and Hofstadter together in text gives mostly the word extreme or…treme And no good evidence that he has addressed the concept of tremes which I discovered just tonight watching a Through the Wormhole episode.

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 4, 2017, 11:35:16 PM4/4/17

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Is there really any difference between instantiating all these comments are not doing so?

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 4, 2017, 11:36:37 PM4/4/17

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Cs/are/or/

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 5, 2017, 9:12:35 AM4/5/17

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Complexity is the hallmark of living systems: The Earth is getting very complex. Conclusion?

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Don Stockbauer

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Apr 5, 2017, 9:00:27 PM4/5/17

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And I feel myself a cog in somethin turning.

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 6, 2017, 8:23:49 AM4/6/17

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Someone needs to change their name to Girl Asherbock.

Don Stockbauer

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Apr 6, 2017, 12:53:45 PM4/6/17

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Douglas, we hardly knew ye.