From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 17:36:22 MDT
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:51:52PM -0700, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:43:22PM -0400, Martin Striz wrote:
> >>BTW, they will also probably be the most complex thing that they
> >>have to deal with and learn about. It is logically impossible
> >>to contain a complete internal model of yourself.
> >
> >Why do people keep saying that?
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine
>
>
> How is this relevant to what Martin asserted? It does not
> contradict his point.
It seems to me that it does, but even if it doesn't, the existence
of maps and blueprints seems to. I suppose it depends on what you
mean by "complete", "internal" and "model".
-Robin
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