Absolutely; I fully agree - just ignore the various asides, like my
commentary about the fundamental problem of humanity, in response to Betty's
observation about people not considering consequences. Computers, of course,
are products of people asking questions, including about implications,
consequences and proper (critical) distinctions), i.e. critical thinking,
and the lack of such critical thinking (really critical questioning)
characterizes virtually all important public discourse. So computers are
related in that way to societal problems and our thinking about them - they
are both products of processes that are essentially epistemologically
opposite of each other. And, of course, the problem solving that goes into
figuring out what is wrong with a computer, etc. is also essentially the
same
Furthermore, at a deep level, what gives computers their power to do all the
things they do is most fundamentally the same thing that is at the root of
both troubleshooting computers and the processes of the development of
reason, science and technology that led to their creation and ongoing
development.
So, as the Philosopher Hegel showed some centuries ago, its all really
related, and in that broad sense, on point and on topic, even if it doesn't
appear to be perhaps at first glance or to most people.
But I, too, am really here, at least originally and mostly, to tap into the
collective experience and knowledge about computers and other related
matters, because, as someone once said - and which is nicely expresses my
theory, in its purely secular meaning - "Ask and Ye Shall Receive." And
there's no better way of receiving a desired or needed answer than by
asking!
Randall
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] rename the list ...naaaah!
anyone who screws with this list is gonna hafta deal with me ...it's the
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