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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:13:56 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20888 Quantitative vs. qualitative progress 

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From K. Watson:
> 
> > We are in a time saturated society and quantitative progress has taken 
> all 
> > our time.
> 
> Either it has or it hasn't.  So what?  What do I do differently
> in either case?  Lobby my Congressman?  Choose different
> investments?  Change careers?  Cancel my cryonics arrangements
> (fat chance)?  Learn tensor calculus?  Worry?  

what about making something in the material world? drilling, melting/casting 
metal, poorring concrete and so on? The fact that you don't even think at 
such activities is a proof that we live in an artificial world disconnected 
from reality.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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