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To: Win Smith who wrote (30265)	9/29/2001 6:17:58 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

Oh yeah, it is very speculative. The cutting edge of science is always weird. I love checking out these theories. Sure some may be all wrong, but what if there are one or two that aren't? Do I have to wait until all the data is in to even consider the ramifications of the theory being true? What do I possibly have to fear from that? I'm probably too simplistic in my understanding of the universe now. I've own two telescopes and just don't get people that are mired in the here and now. I want to know as much as I can! I guess that is how I keep my hunger for the unknown satisfied. I don't need to imagine a metaphysical universe that is totally alien to me because there are some many of them out there that could shall the entire knowledge base I've spent my life acquiring. I'll speculate on any topic, especially where philosophy and religion meet physics and computer science. People talking about higher brain function being a distributed executive were proposing it well before positron emission tomography ever came on the stage to confirm it. It is now gospel. Much of the theory of distributed neural networks (and that relationship to higher brain function) existed years before the technology confirmed it.