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To: elmatador who wrote (88036)	3/16/2012 10:58:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 219832

ElM, you have missed the point. < Over the centuries the accelerating trend has been to increase the spread of information, i.e., the number of end-users, the number of potential contributors, and the ease of propagation. And at each iteration are those who think that something unparalleled, something revolutionary has been done. > You could say the same about DNA being just another crystallization process due to molecular forces - ho hum, copper crystals, calcite [cute how the light changes], steel in the euctectic diagram for carbon and iron, the carbon joins up in pretty tetrahedra in diamonds, though not so pretty in buckeyball form though interesting anyway, and carbon can even do double helix spirals. If you were commenting back then, you would say about the difference between diamond and dna, "over the millions of years, the accelerating trend has been to increase the number of electromagnetic molecular interactions i.e. the number of molecules, the number of potential combinations, and the ease of propagation. And at each iteration are those who think that something unparalleled, something revolutionary has been done" You would have missed the transition from not alive, to alive. Then, when the transition from alive to neurons first happened, you'd have pointed how it was nothing much different from the other millions of cellular interactions and variations on the themes. After humans stepped out of the chimpoid jungle and started passing knowledge down the generations and even recording the knowledge in symbolic form, you would have thought it not particularly special. Now, cognitive processes have gone extra-somatic with Google remembering more than all humans combined Then recalling something in a fraction of a second. Then reporting that information to anywhere in the world. Siri is young and still learning, but will no doubt be able to ask Google things. Then tell the "boss" what to do next. There are trillions of cognitive extra-somatic processes measuring temperature, pressure, flow rate, radiation levels, weight, volume, earthquakes, sea level, plant growth and everything else, with that data being reported back to the extra-somatic cognitive HQ for that particular data, then disseminated on to anyone, or crucially, anything, who/which wants it. If you don't think what has happened is revolutionary, it's hard to imagine something that you would think revolutionary. Mqurice