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To: koan who wrote (45424)	7/23/2007 12:41:28 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

Our brains did not evolve to perfect sequential logic. Well obviously not all brains evolved that way.. for instance Mosquitoes are bad at sequential logic. ditto cats, dogs and fish. But a dog's mind acts 5 times faster than yours. Don't try to out dodge a dog, or beat him to your slippers. It won't work. They can see the lines between the frames on a TV set. Which is 30 times less flicker fusion than you got. That is also why the dog never misses the frisbee. But how is this for sequence thinking? 1. I see a lion. 2. The lion can eat me. 3. The lion must sense me. 4. The Lion must also see Koan on the right of me. 5. Koan is fatter and better feed for lion 6. I can run faster than Koan with running shoes on. 7. If I stop and take the time to put on running shoes, I only have to run a bit faster than Koan and the Lion will eat him. 8. Therefore we can say, "Koan can I borrow you running shoes? I am sure they will just slow you down!" I put it to you that sequential logic was necessary from ancient times. The proof is in the existence of sequential thinking man, relatively few Koans, and running shoes. EC<:-}

To: koan who wrote (45424)	7/23/2007 9:30:52 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78416

Strangely we seem to have very similar thought processes and yet manage to often arrive at different conclusions :o) No I'm not disagreeing with your presidential decree ;o)

To: koan who wrote (45424)	7/23/2007 9:44:08 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

The actual way the world works is known to but a few. We have to hide a few secrets from your inquiring mind. We don't want this stuff getting around. What I think people miss is that the world tends toward organization, not disorganization, as we need groups to get anything done. Thoreau found this out. You had to depend on society for any level of technology. You had to come to town for seed, tools, repairs, etc.. What I found was the hardest to keep going when camping over extended periods was light. Few companies make durable lamps that are cheap to use. My father who was in the engineers during the second world war, told me if it was just up to better equipment, we would be all speaking German now. That isn't strictly true, but they did have better optics, cars, guns and engines. The FW-190 was almost impossible to beat. But he added that one of the main reasons we won the war was the coleman stove. People fight better when they have had a hot coffee in the morning. EC<:-}