--- Bo Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't kept up with this thread. But I wanted to counter the idea of a > simple ordering of painfulness. > > A simple ordering of painfulness is one way to think about pain that might > work in some simple systems, where resources are allocated in a serial > fashion, but may not work in systems where resource allocation choices are > not necessarily serial and mutually exclusive. > > If our system has a heterarchy of goal-accomplishing resources--some of > which imply others and some of which exclude others, the problem of > simple orderings of painfulness may be not useful for thinking about > these types of resource allocation.
Can you give me an example? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
