A Conversation for Organic computer still thinking
How do you know it's still thinking?
Is mise Duncan Started conversation Oct 30, 2003
It could be thinking the same thoughts over and over and and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ....
Fetch the screwdrivers, Mr Heisenberg, we're going to have to open the box.
How do you know it's still thinking?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Dec 12, 2003
It is my experience that circular thinking is the most common form of thought among humans. The more obvious manifestations of this are found in economics, merry-go-rounds and the wheel.
I forgot to subscribe to this page when I 'borrowed' the artwork from aka. So I have only now (Dec 12 2003) discovered your posting and hope you will understand my oversight.
~jwf~
How do you know it's still thinking?
Is mise Duncan Posted Dec 14, 2003
Not to worry - it could be months before I get around to answering it at this rate...
How do you know it's still thinking?
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Dec 24, 2003
doing 
Turing tests
"Good concept: 'circular thinking', it will generate spinnoffs yet provides a continuation base to stay alert. Next step will be to eliminate the spinnoffs in time before they spam all the processes."
How do you know it's still thinking?
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Dec 24, 2003
Nephew Who scanning conversations
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^^ h2g2
How do you know it's still thinking?
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It already works?"
How do you know it's still thinking?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Dec 24, 2003
>> Good concept: 'circular thinking', it will generate spinnoffs <<
Yes I like to think of those as fractal fantasms. More linear thinkers call them flashes of insight or brainstorms. But I see them as molecular randomness. Like a backspun pingpong ball hovering above the net. 
~jwf~
How do you know it's still thinking?
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Dec 24, 2003
lurking his pipe in the seahorse valley
"What else can the iterative processes generate but bueatiful concepts as whether we exist or not?"
Traveller in Time 
on his head
"Perhaps the little boy falling asleep on my lap playing with the outlines of my beard? < A2080595 > (image of the beard)"
How do you know it's still thinking?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Dec 24, 2003
I have (as you may have noticed elsewhere) been wandering thru the links you provided. An area I now think of as 'the T-i-T Complex' or TTC.
What an amazing maze you have created. I am enjoying your creations too much to even think of being jealous of your manifold skills with words and computers and the realm of ideas that exists in the place where language meets code (as it was in the Beginning).
Peace to you and a large helping of whatever joys of the season you can muster or manage.
~jwf~
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How do you know it's still thinking?
- 1: Is mise Duncan (Oct 30, 2003)
- 2: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Dec 12, 2003)
- 3: Is mise Duncan (Dec 14, 2003)
- 4: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Dec 24, 2003)
- 5: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Dec 24, 2003)
- 6: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Dec 24, 2003)
- 7: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Dec 24, 2003)
- 8: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Dec 24, 2003)
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