[FRIAM] enough of Robert Rosen

[Glen E. P. Ropella]

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Marcus G. Daniels on 01/08/2008 11:44 AM:
> Fine, so let's move on from RR terms.   It seems to be a dead end!

No, it's not a dead-end.  It's just a body of theoretical work that we
may or may not need as yet.  I fully support the development of theory
prior to needing that theory.

What if we plug along in the "computationalist" paradigm for the next
100 years and _finally_ realize that, hey! we could have used that
gobbledygook Robert Rosen generated?  Or, worse yet, what if _forget_
about it completely and end up reinventing it?

No, I don't think we should categorize RR terms as a dead-end... not
yet, anyway.

However, if you don't like speculative theoretical discussions, then
feel free to avoid them! [grin]

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glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get
done. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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