Re: Turing Machines and Physical Computation

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:55:11 +0000

In article <9397b9e1ec6b19e17df4e66701f8971d.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>,
Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com> writes
>"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> If you want to restrict your metaphysics to
>> sci.maths, comp.theory or misc.misc that's fine by
>> me.
>
>Which part of "you, David Longley butting into
>conversations where you have no credentials to
>participate, nor ability to talk about anything
>currently being discussed there", was so hard for
>you to grasp that the above non sequitur about _my_
>choices was your reply?
>
>You are not merely mentally ill, David, but
>grievously dysfunctionally mentally ill, and with a
>severity more than a match for my own sorry
>situation. In my case my illness still leaves me a
>contributing member of "signal" on Usenet, mostly in
>comp.ai.genetic, in your case your illness limits
>you to being part of the "noise" factor only,
>everywhere I see you posting, everything I see you
>post.
>
>Based on the other responses you receive, this seems
>to be an all but universally held opinion of you. I
>can easily count your fellow travelers on the
>fingers of one hand, while your (correct) detractors
>number beyond my ability to tally at all.
>
>HTH
>
>xanthian.

Ah, but note that you're "nose-counting" like many others, and that's
not a reliable way to pursue truth. There's nothing particularly
pathological in what I'm doing here, nor is there what I've been doing
elsewhere. That you think otherwise is largely a function of your not
having followed up what I have provided, or acting on other advice that
I (and others) have given you in the past. In other words, you wilful
ignorance accounts for your poor grasp of what I have been doing/saying.

I'm explicating something about normal behaviour, not just delinquent or
pathological behaviour. You should look into the differences between
"rule governed" behaviour, and behaviour controlled by other
contingencies - and then think about this thread title. 

-- 
David Longley