Hello Osher On 01-Dec-02, you wrote:
>> From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Nov. 30, 2002 1005 > > I agree generally with Tim May on mathematics and physics vs computers and > AI. My most amusing example is something of a Jonathon Swift parody of all > four of these fields. Gulliver lands on an island inhabited by > mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists/computer engineers, and AI > people, all competing. He notices that they all rushing ahead to greater > and greater complication and complexity and so on, and it occurs to him that > this might be their weak point. Could they all have overlooked something > simple [question-mark]. He discovers, as it so happens that I discovered > some 20 or so years ago, that they are all using division and multiplication > to formulate relationships involving influence and causation [I omit > calculus limits for those unfamiliar with them], and minimally using > subtraction and addition. Gulliver then reformulates all of their theories > using subtraction and/or addition, and it turns out that all of the > resulting theories are completely different from the old ones. So have you published your reformulation of all mathematics, physics, computer science, and AI using addition/subtraction instead of multiplication/division? Brent Meeker "Epistimology precedes ontology." --- Terry Savage