From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 00:41:44 MDT
In a message dated 9/15/00 11:14:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
wingcat@pacbell.net writes:
<< Well...you don't have to fight it. Empathy can give you insight into
human nature...and to the best of our knowledge, which species built all
this high tech stuff that we're working with? Guessing based on, "if I
was a typical programmer/system designer/whatever I know the maker of
what I'm faced with was, how would I have set this up," has saved me
much time in the past. That is one of the things that sets applied
computer science apart from, say, chemical engineering.
> What can I say? I have an intermittenly over-active
> God-module.
You try to be God sometimes, too? ^_^ >>
Yes, that is George Dyson's point, that we are the qualia part the
computer-human co-evolution.
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