From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 12:30:04 MDT
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Anders Sandberg wrote:
[big snip]
> Imagine that being A manages to understand all that is
> understandable by mapping it (sometimes in very complex ways) into
> domains A, B, C, ... and being B achieves the same thing with
> domains X, Y, Z, ... It could happen that there is no way of
> mapping between ABC and XYZ in ways that would be comprehensible
> (or even decideable?) for the entities. In that case they would
> have different kinds of understandings.
Precisely (and I haven't been following this thread).
Though I doubt it has made it to Europe, there is a long running
sit-com in the U.S. called the Drew Carrey Show about a mid-level
executive in a chain of department stores. The locale for this
series is Cleveland Ohio -- a medium sized city meandering forward
in a post-industrial era. One of the more interesting parts of the
show is the intro where they show the cast and lots of other people
streaming out into the street singing "Cleveland Rocks" (lots of
irony here because middle-Americana boosterism would like to
promote the idea that their home town is "cool" while the
rest of America [particularly on the two coasts] has one or
even both eyebrows raised thinking -- "Like Cleveland could
*ever* 'rock'").
Background side-bar finished.
"Anders Rocks!"
(if you have heard the D.C.S. intro it will resonate more...)
(No irony intended).
Robert
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