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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
- 12:37pm Apr 7, 2003 EST (#
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Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click
"rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for
on this thread.
Here are references to the notion of paradigm on
this thread since September 2000. In some ways "if you've
seen one, you've seen 'em all." - - and in some other
ways, the postings are significantly different. Dawn and I
care about the idea of paradigms, or there wouldn't be so
many.
A person reading these postings - or a sampling of them -
would have a lot of interconnected "multidimensional" clues
about what we mean when we use the word "paradigm".
Some of those clues could be, should be, handled
statistically. There's good reason to think that the kind
of statistics needed happens in our brains.
Some of these clues could be, should be, handled by
patterns of consistency checking - including some patterns
that we'd recognize as "logical." There's good reason to
think that the kind of consistency matching and logic needed
for that also happens in our brains.
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