TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Fri Jun 3 17:12:40 CDT 2011
On 6/3/2011 5:34 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>> ...or how about an analogy to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Or to
>>> the
>>> idea that an electron is actually a particle riding a wave or a cloud more
>>> dense at "points?" Or "Schrodenger's cat," a "thought experiment"
>>> demonstrating how indeterminacy may be resolved by taking action in a
>>> situation, merging "blurred" and discrete" models" of reality?
>> All good possibilities but I'm getting kind of dizzy. :-)
>> P
> But TR doesn't make me a bit dizzy. In fact, while a few odd sentences
> suck thier own tails, most of the narrative is a gentle ride. Examples
> are useful. How else can we pin a tale on a cat.
>
I meant
the uncertainty principle
the incompleteness theorem
the uncomputability problem
information entropy
negentropy
as they relate to Self
stuff like that.
:-)
P
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