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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (64840)	6/10/2005 6:52:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Gib, it doesn't take an SUV roaring up and down a 100km commute at 70 mph to grow some rice, or pump some water. <You can't grow food in cyberspace, or pump water. There isn't any cyberspace anyway, it's just communication.> Most of what we do is not related to food and water. Most is just roaring around in big machines for the fun of it. Fun is a mental activity. Cyberspace is a mental activity. The most valuable things we do are brain things. Before the industrial revolution we did muscle things. The industrial revolution replaced those. Now, the cyberspace revolution is replacing brain things. True, cyberspace is just communication. But that's all a brain is too - one neuron communicating with a bunch of others. But even though that's all it does, it seems to be a valuable thing to us. Of course cyberspace does more than that, just as a brain does. A brain has data inputs [sound, sight, taste, touch, smell] and cyberspace has data inputs too, but a LOT more inputs such as rads, lumen, degrees Kelvin, speed, altitude, pressure, joules per second plus sound, sight, taste, touch and smell. "just communication"? Well, yes. Mqurice