Huh?
seth
ken collins wrote:
> although i expect it'll be "a while" before what i've discussed
> is grasped (after folks realize that it's not as they expected,
> and, then, begin to try to understand), it seems an opportune
> "time" to make a further point...
>> From The Constitution of the United States of America:
>> "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing
> for
> limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to
> their
> respective writings and discoveries"
>> "No person shall [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken
> for
> public use, without just compensation.
>> it gives me Sorrow to've Witnessed all that's transpired...
> "journalism", "science", "government"... all Lincoln's "lock of
> one hundred keys" stuff.
>> The Constitution either Exists, or it doesn't... and The United
> States of America, along with it... i expect we'll find out.
>> K. P. Collins
>> ken collins wrote:
> >
> > ken collins wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > it's all one big stateless continuity... one
> > > big "traveling salesman problem" that's continuously solved in
> > > real-"time"... which means th[e]re exist no, so-called
> > > "NP-complete" problems.
> >
> > ...as in the case of Earth-centered astronomy's giving a False
> > image of the heavens, with respect to which, non-Earth-centered
> > astronomy fixed some of the error inherent, it's good to
> > understand that methods of calculation, employed with respect to
> > Physical Reality, do not dictate to Physical Reality that which
> > it is... likewise, it's good to recognize, and eliminate,
> > encumberances that are inherent only in a method of calculation,
> > only because they were defined-into the method of calculation...
> >
> > it's good to recognize when it's a method of calculation that
> > renders the solving a problem "impossible"... and not anything
> > inherent in the problem.
> >
> > "epicycles" give a False image of Physical Reality... toss them
> > out.
> >
> > "discrete 'states'" give a False image of Physical Reality...
> > toss them out.
> >
> > K. P. Collins
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