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To: Ilaine who wrote (85495)	1/2/2012 2:53:57 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220282

Somebody or something is and has been playing a joke of gargantuan proportions on us and on the cosmos. All that exists is a product of algorithms (process) and data (content). Process modifies content and content modifies process. If you are able to observe process you may discover that content is (ultimately) irrelevant. This fine dance between the two is more than a match for the grand music that emanates from an inevitable personal oblivion. :)

To: Ilaine who wrote (85495)	1/2/2012 6:56:11 PM
From: Hawkmoon	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220282

The ones that come to mind are the Kennedies. Yeah.. what comes to mind with regard to them is that "crime pays".. From Booze smuggling, to manipulating stock markets, to political manipulation, to self-promotion to the edge of deification.. etc.. But I guess that could be construed as genetically influenced megalomania. Hawk

To: Ilaine who wrote (85495)	1/3/2012 3:41:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Respond to of 220282

Quite right. Hawk had the cart before the horse: < don't think Mq is saying that learned behavior is passed on genetically, but that humans must have inborn behavior qualities, it stands to reason, because animals do, and we're animals, too. > Of course people have genetic dispositions to do things of a type. It's not that men have genes which make them play golf, but that golf includes various things which hook straight into genetic design. So when exposed to golf, neurons light up all over the place and away they go golfing away, hunting, chasing, winning, battling against their own psyche, experiencing the lash of rain and the wind in their hair. It's the same with playing football. Males form gangs which then do battle with each other. There isn't a soccer gene, or rugby gene, but genes which dispose to plentiful peptides and other neurological stimulation when those games are played. Males are now swarming into Cyberspace, battling away. Interestingly, it has been noticed [at last - it took "them" long enough] that there is more to the drop in car usage by young males than simply the cost of gasoline. Major Paradigm Shift Happens. Cars are so last century. Easy Rider of historical curiosity. Much like snuff and wigs were of another era. The article I read argued that Cyberspace DeVices enable journeys to be replaced by Cyberspace communication, but that totally misses the point. The point is that the new realm of adventure is no longer exotic places in distant lands [which no longer exist] nor space travel [which is an absurd idea as there is nowhere to go]. The new frontier is Cyberspace. The wars are on. Literal wars. Men are swarming in by the million. As Sheik Yamani said decades ago, the oil age won't end for a lack of oil, just as the stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones. Mqurice