From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Conference: Loebner and his prize Date: 07 Nov 2002 07:46:54 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3245644014782510@naggum.no> References: <3DC4628D.70500@nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036655215 11724 129.240.65.208 (7 Nov 2002 07:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 07:46:55 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:45921 * Nicholas Geovanis | Once upon a time it held that it was rapid, essentially "discontinuous" | climate change during one of the ice ages which selected homo sapiens and | eliminated the others. IOW the larger brain helped with the "bear warm, | wear bear" kind of problems; not to mention "plant food, food grow" and | "snow come, chase sun" (south, not west). YMMV. Evolution is not about survival of the fittest, but death of the unfit, which is quite a different story. All sorts of things survive, but when some illness or catastrophy or other disastrous event occurs, a lot of individuals die. It is entirely random (as far as survival pre-disaster is concerned) which factor allows individuals to survive the disaster. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.