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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41:18PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> I've been re-trained over the last few years by a German

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> mechanical-engineer friend to think in a very reductionist,

> non-magickal, deterministic, cold-hard-reality kind of way.

Mechanical engineers, in particular those doing precision

mechanics, can be very Zen. I remember one of them, Alex.

Twenty years or so ago I was with a company making plotters,

me doing the DSP for motor control and Alex doing the mechanics.

A tolerance of 0.01 mm he'd call 'coarse'. He would take up a

screwdriver, adjust a screw by 5 degrees, then wipe it with a

white silk cloth and put it back into its place in his toolbox

which was off-limits to everyone except himself. Still makes me

feel guilty when looking at the pile of pliers and screwdrivers

in my box.
> It's all ones and zeroes. Given the same inputs, the same

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> output should be obtained. Acoustics is physics. And if I

> can't measure it, it doesn't exist.

Science is not only physics. Today psychology is science as

well, a fact largely ignored not only by the unwashed masses

but even by many intellectuals who still consider Freud to be

the last word on these matters.
Ciao,
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FA
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E guerra e morte !

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