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| pairadimes 2004-04-14, 12:30 pm |
| Having way too much time on my hands, I was browsing some software I bought
many moons ago called dMILL All-Networks Productivity Kits which still
stands as the singular best software and tutorial on the implementation of
code for multi-user systems. I am sure that some of you have used either
this product or his earlier product, dCL-Net Library. This amazing product
was the work of a man named T. David Millican. I could go on and on about
the purity of thought this man used to teach this subject but I will leave
it to you to do the research...just do a Google on his name.
Anyways, I wanted to know what this man was doing today and was shocked at
what I learned. Check out the following link and hold on to your seatbelts:
http://www.canonicalthought.com/
I knew the man was a genius but who would have thunk it! Keep in mind that
this guy is one of us!
Mike
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| Al Acker 2004-04-15, 11:30 am |
| I just wrote a nice long post.... and deleted it.... better to bite ones lip
sometimes. <G>.
Al
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| pairadimes 2004-04-15, 12:30 pm |
| Send it privately to me, Al...I am always interested in your opinions.
Mike
"Al Acker" <al@thexbasefiles.com> wrote in message
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> I just wrote a nice long post.... and deleted it.... better to bite ones
lip
> sometimes. <G>.
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> Al
> --
> Al Acker, President
> Acker Consulting, Inc.
> mailto:al@thexbasefiles.com
> http://www.ackerconsulting.com
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| Bill Ding 2004-04-15, 9:30 pm |
| On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:01:48 -0700 <mdhall@lvcm.com> wrote:
>Having way too much time on my hands, I was browsing some software I bought
>many moons ago called dMILL All-Networks Productivity Kits which still
>stands as the singular best software and tutorial on the implementation of
>code for multi-user systems. I am sure that some of you have used either
>this product or his earlier product, dCL-Net Library. This amazing product
>was the work of a man named T. David Millican. I could go on and on about
>the purity of thought this man used to teach this subject but I will leave
>it to you to do the research...just do a Google on his name.
>
>Anyways, I wanted to know what this man was doing today and was shocked at
>what I learned. Check out the following link and hold on to your seatbelts:
>
>http://www.canonicalthought.com/
>
>I knew the man was a genius but who would have thunk it! Keep in mind that
>this guy is one of us!
Has he added anything to his book (Genius Thinking for Humanity)? I
saw the site about two years ago (following some interesting threads
on Ed Wilson's "Consilience"), and visited again last year, but
nothing seems to have been added - the book was still (from 98-99) a
work in progress, or if not, it was still billed such. An
thought-provoking and interesting book, though, complete or not.
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| Al Acker 2004-04-16, 3:30 pm |
| See email.
Al
"pairadimes" <mdhall@lvcm.com> wrote in message
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> Send it privately to me, Al...I am always interested in your opinions.
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> Mike
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> "Al Acker" <al@thexbasefiles.com> wrote in message
> news:Alxfc.138213$gA5.1660691@attbi_s03...
> lip
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| Al Acker 2004-04-16, 3:30 pm |
| Ah...... Ya <g>.
Al
"Jamie Macleod" <bubamacleod@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> wonderful visitors like YOU welcomed since November 28, 1998!
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> Wow! In 5 years he's had 510 visitors. <g>
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> "Al Acker" <al@thexbasefiles.com> wrote in message
> news:Alxfc.138213$gA5.1660691@attbi_s03...
> lip
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| T. David Millican calls all programmers and philosophers! (smile)
Here's an update as of October 2005. For conciseness, I'll answer all the
questions in the thread.
1. To Bill Ding: I have not added anything to the manuscript of "Genius
Thinking for Humanity: Building a Universal Civilization with Canonical
Thought" (GTFH), which is available for free download on
WWW.CanonicalThought.ORG. There are at least four reasons: (A) Since
1998, I have been helping a family member automate her business, and have
had little time for other projects. (As of this month, I'm wrapping up
this automation effort and returning to full-time work on Canonical
Thought.) (B) I stopped writing GTFH when I realized that I was doing a
brain dump on everything I knew about the wholistic scientific philosophy
of Canonical Thought. The scope of topics shown in the Table of Contents
for GTFH, which includes many unwritten chapters, is broad enough for
several books. Nevertheless, the amount of material from the chapters I
HAVE written is equivalent to about 400 pages in a trade paperback format.
(C) My thinking has evolved considerably both in terms of content and how
to present it. I have begun to outline and write material for two
introductory books with much tighter focus than GTFH. The first book will
be an introduction to Canonical Thought for general audiences called "The
Canonical Revolution: Tough Love to Save Humanity from Extinction"
(http://www.canonicalthought.org/non...atest_draft.htm).
The exponential rise in technology implies that in this century,
oppressors and the terrorists who oppose them will both have access to
species-ending weapons. The only possible countermeasure is for humans to
turn as a species to an exclusive reliance on universal principles, and in
turn, an orientation towards the welfare of the individual human being.
Canonical Thought is the result of applying optimization theory to wholism
to show that the underlying nature of reality can be described in terms of
what mathematicians call canonical forms, which is the origin of
"canonical" in Canonical Thought. The other introductory book is called
"The Canonical Manifesto"; it uses mathematical notation and is geared to
intellectuals, graduate students, and policy makers. (D) The goal of the
Canonical Revolution is to establish a stable, nonviolent, and glorious
global civilization. My work is to provide philosophical and cultural
materials for such a civilization. My main goal for the next year is to
complete the musical notation for a 27-song scenic cantata for children's
chorus, women's chorus, men's chorus, and full orchestra. I have already
written the libretto (lyrics) for this 80-minute work; the music is
already sketched and must be formally written down as a choral/orchestral
score. The title of this work is "Worldsongs for the Millennia". I'll
also be producing the choral/orchestral scores for "The Anthem of European
Union" (36 lyric lines), "The Anthem of Human Union" (36 lyric lines), and
"The Hypersphere of Knowledge" (35 lyric lines).
Canonical Thought is the mathematically rigorous proof of the consilience
hypothesis advanced in Edward Wilson's book "Consilience". This proof
exploits the concept of static canonical forms which is central to pure
mathematics, and the concept of dynamic canonical forms which Edward
Yourdon explicated as superprogrammer algorithms in his "Structured"
books! THANKS FOR YOUR QUESTION, BILL!
2. Jamie Macleod noted wryly that (at the time of his post on Apr 15,
2004), the entry page of my website stated "510 wonderful visitors like
YOU welcomed since November 28, 1998!" The explanation for this pitifully
small visitor count is that #$%$#! Microsoft Frontpage overwrote my visitor
counter with an old value, despite the fact that for years, I had specified
the option "do not overwrite". I had not noticed this problem before I
encountered Jamie's post, and I promptly removed the counter -- life is
too short for this kind of nonsense. As if to get revenge for my removing
the visitor counter, a few months later FrontPage deleted the entire
contents of the \My Webs folder. I investigated FrontPage's competitors
with the intention of switching to another web development application,
but -- to my dismay -- forum postings I read reported major bugs with
FrontPage's competitors! I stayed with FrontPage under the philosophy,
"Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't know" :-(.
3. I have dramatically expanded WWW.CanonicalThought.ORG (mirrored in
WWW.CanonicalThought.NET and WWW.CanonicalThought.COM) in the last year.
I invite all to visit and spend a few hours checking out the new content.
Some new or expanded categories are Poems (several classifications),
Essays, Open Letters, Stories, and Books (nonfiction and a novel).
4. I'm looking for readers and diarists for "The Canonical Revolution"
book. For more information, see
http://www.canonicalthought.org/non...test_draft.htm.
Thanks to all, T. David Millican
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