[MD] Intellectual and Social

[Mary]

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world.  Those who understand binary
and those who don't.

- Mary

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[Krimel]
Computers are digital which gives them the power of storage and speed.
Humans are analog. We have neural networks with the power to make
connections and perceive patterns and relationships. Together we make a
powerful if unpredictable duo.

[Mary]
I would add that humans, being analog, are capable of perceiving the
infinity that exists between zero and one.  

[Krimel]
Programming pattern recognition has proven quite difficult. OCR software and
voice recognition are already usable. Facial recognition is not far behind.
I suspect it will not be long for computers can identify the emotional state
of human.

[Mary]
Lost track of which post it was, but someone recently was concerned that the
logic of 1+1=2 was supreme, and if so, what that implied for the MoQ.  I
would suggest that humans know better (we know it just ain't so), but
digital computers never will.  For a digital life-form, the logic of 1+1=2
is the supreme metaphysics of the Universe.

[Krimel]
Efforts to nail down certainty and ground mathematics in formal logical
broke down in the 1930's. While great progress was made by Russell, Wallace
and Gödel, ultimately they showed that any closed formal system must include
assumptions that are not provable within the system.

Certainty, even the possibility of certainty, was a casualty of the early
20th century. It was shown to be, in principle, unattainable in both math
and physics. Science today is probabilistic and has acknowledged that chaos
and uncertainty can be minimized and quantified but not eliminated. The
world carries embedded deep within it, a fundamental dynamic quality. 

Emphasizing as it does the static and dynamic qualities of pretty much
everything, the MoQ has the potential of providing a metaphysical
underpinning for this. But don't hold your breath.

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