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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (95190)	1/14/2005 12:49:42 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793897

.>>I don't see the magic you see in, say, carbon dating. Those are all just functions of a more developed cortex. Given what we know about chimp brains, we would expect that our common ancestor probably was capable of some communication, but it took a jump in size of the neocortex to create the potential for what you have talked about.>>> We entered the age of magic several years ago. An age where complexity overwhelms understanding of simple or individual concepts and where our language becomes inadequate to describe events. When we can transmit 60 channels of data simultaneously over a single fiber optic cable using different frequencies of light, when we can measure the deflection of the earths surface to an accuracy of 2 mm, when we can store 100 photographic images on a chip in a digital camera and look at them individually in a viewer on the back. Then all I can see or understand is the box, and if the magic is in there somebody will buy it (g) Sig