X-Message-Number: 20914 From: Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:13:56 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #20888 Quantitative vs. qualitative progress --part1_a4.3286fab2.2b5b1d94_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --part1_a4.3286fab2.2b5b1d94_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20914