From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri May 7 05:40:51 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 7 May 1993 15:59:43 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9821; Fri, 07 May 93 15:59:06 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7648; Fri, 07 May 93 15:56:44 EST Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 12:40:51 -0700 Reply-To: hedgehog@SCRIPPS.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: hedgehog@SCRIPPS.EDU Subject: Re: TECH: experimental cmavo "xo'e" X-To: bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Message-ID: >Maybe this utterance does *not* mean anything! Perhaps everything >made must be made/assembled/built _out of_ something....or maybe not. >I certainly cannot think of anything made (in contrast to designed) >that is not made _out of_ something, whether it be waves of light or >atoms or gravitational fields or the emotions of a crowd.... Of what material are waves of light and gravitational fields made? Of what substance are emotions made? In General Relativity gravitational fields are bends in space-time. Maybe space-time has to be made of something, but of what material is a "bend" made. ***************** Richard Schroeder hedgehog@riscsm.scripps.edu The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of TSRI or its funding agencies.