From xod@thestonecutters.net Tue Jan 27 07:13:34 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AlUuE-0004CM-Cg for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:13:34 -0800 Received: from thestonecutters.net (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDCB14800D for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:12:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4016801A.5030301@thestonecutters.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:13:30 -0500 From: xod User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Almost there! References: <000e01c3e3cc$1b7398e0$6501a8c0@COMER> <20040127002552.GH11006@digitalkingdom.org> <00d901c3e4a0$8d4deae0$6501a8c0@COMER> In-Reply-To: <00d901c3e4a0$8d4deae0$6501a8c0@COMER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 496 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Ken Comer wrote: > The term `` "hard-wired" '' was being used figuratively above to mean > >something like ``artificially innate.'' No wires are actually involved. >I'm not sure why you don't think it seems reasonable, but if you thought it >involved physical wires, it doesn't. > >The story presupposes that there is such a thing as an "engram," which term >has been in use by non-fictional Earthling researchers to mean "a >theoretical memory unit consisting of a relationship between a network of >neurons, electrical charges and chemical neurotransmitter emissions," and >that these engrams can be "implanted" (figuratively speaking) in a person's >brain (and mind) using a combination of millions of nanobots and hundreds of >thousands of viruses specifically designed for the task. > >Moreover, the story also presupposes that engrams can be established >genetically (in the same sort of way that a spider knows how to weave a web) >as a result of custom-designed genes on the X chromosome (or any chromosome, >for that matter). > >If it still sounds unreasonable, then I'm disappointed because I failed to >establish suspension of disbelief. > .i'e mi na nalkrici ni'i le du'u pe'i lo skepre cu na djuno na'ebo le du'u le zu'o setca lo dikca jesni le besna balji kei cu gasnu le selcinmo .i ni'o mi ckire do fi tu'a lo jboselsku poi na fanva fo lo glico ke'a -- "American imperialism is, by definition, a retreat away from global capitalism, a retreat from the invisible hand of markets in favor of a more dominant role for the visible fist of governments," argued Paul McCulley, a managing director of PIMCO, the world's largest bond investment fund.