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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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rshow55
- 06:56am Apr 5, 2003 EST (#
11133 of 11140)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click
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I'm partners with a poet - she's much the better
half !
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rshow55
- 07:00am Apr 5, 2003 EST (#
11134 of 11140)
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Fredmoore - are you concerned, perhaps, that some
people might be significantly smarter than other people?
That's been true forever.
If people understood themselves better - most people would
be a lot smarter - in every way that matters.
Big steps wouldn't be genetic. Two big ones would be
cleaning up reading instruction - and cleaning up math
instruction - both scandals worldwide, and particularly in
America.
I've been slogging along on problems like that, and might
be able to help.
fredmoore
- 07:24am Apr 5, 2003 EST (#
11135 of 11140)
You have my attention!
rshow55
- 07:34am Apr 5, 2003 EST (#
11136 of 11140)
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Let me take just a little time to get organized.
Back within two hours.
Key point I'd like to make is that everybody has the
same basic neurological equipment - and so much of it
that we're all "smart enough" to do a lot better than
we're doing.
But organization matters - and sometimes matters a lot.
I've been forced to sort out some stuff - and others should
be able to use it with a lot less trouble.
Most of what I know "everybody already knows."
They'd do better if they knew some of these things a little
better, a little more sharply, with the basic ideas sorted out
in a little bit cleaner way.
rshow55
- 09:36am Apr 5, 2003 EST (#
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I'm having some trouble getting things organized just as I
want them.
Here's something basic. People are smart enough, fast
enough, able enough, to do the wonderful things they actually
do. The performance, if you look, seems "miraculous" - on a
lot of things we all take for granted.
Much of what people do, when you look at the good things -
seems miraculously bad - in lots of senses.
Mistakes and muddle have a lot to do with that.
Here's something everybody really knows - and
denies - doesn't want to look at.
In practically every way that matters, people, young and
old, are almosts always complicit to one degree or
another in the logical problems - the problems of
understanding and processing - that slow them down.
Want to know what people should be uneasy about?
Look at them. These are either the things people
look uneasy about - if you just notice - or the things
they seem very sure about.
It wouldn't be all that difficult to teach people
that - and if that were done - we'd be able to sort out most
of our biggest messes - ourselves - in our own way - at our
own pace - step by step - without too much in the way of
ugliness or high costs.
There's not one damn thing that anybody can ever
know about human logic - as it works in our heads when we work
well - that people don't already do - and do well - a
lot of the time.
If we cut out some muddle - that could happen more often.
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