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Every act is is power in=some small way. But the sense relevant to those who write about powe= Morgenthau, Russell, etc. -- is coercive power. Like my telling =y dog right now that I can't play with her.

How about putt=ng an animal with a human auditory and visual system in the same room as a=human infant -- a chimp for example. And see if it can learn speech =r sign the way the infant does. Acquisition of speech and sign are r=markably similar. And we know that even with huge training efforts, =hich the infant doesn't need at all, results for the chimp will be zer=. But interestingly, the facts as usual have no interest to the data=processing usage-based enthusiasts.

Thinking ab=ut it. Keep realizing that I'm not Hilbert, and linguistics isn&=39;t theory-internal 20th century for the math. gene=al The significance exciting problems to be easily I can think perceived. of are eit=er too far from current understanding, or too

Meanwhile, ran across=a nice definition of "power," thinking about an earlier letter t=at you may have forgotten. From Hans Morgenthau: Power in the intern=tional context is "that untamed and barbaric force which finds its la=s in nothing but its own strength and its sole justifi cation in its own=aggrandizement."

Great term. Can I plagiarize it?

I guess on= could say that a lion and a gazelle have competing powers, but it somehow=seems
misleading. All living systems? How about ███ and I =urnishing our apartment together (I became an expert on
rugs)? Or ███ and I writing a book together?

Interestingly, I finished =ff the brisket and pretty much the corned beef but am saving the pastrami.=C2 Great mustard and bread too. The only problem is that the dog =oes berserk unless I give her little pieces. Must have Jewish genes.=br>

five questions in language. =A0 the █████ challenge. . 50k in pri=es. ?
use the internet to reach the brightest minds ? wh= not?

Even if far it could act as a North Star . = power has many properties those might me some . Is the abilit= to care for many Power? Is the ability to find new medicines=power

How about a challenge that says put a th=ng in a room and see if can learn a

language .?

I wi=l now credit you with the derivation. Do a new term. - Dubes =C2 Data usage based

enthusiasts

You had the power to=move the furniture she had the power to tell you when and where :)

It's your term as I see it ██████ vs the dubes
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Living systems need energy hence they FEED . =AO Plants vegetables all try to protect themselves . Skin poisons , =tc. I believe the best benefit to cost ratio relies on Deceptio= And to know the mind of the predator or prey, language is the too= . It allows a shared understanding of mental objects , mental state= and mental actions . patient 81116 pos ng.=df

Sexist. How do you know that she didn'= move the furniture while I told her when and where.

Hobbes v=. Adam Smith. Hobbes: life is a war. Smith: the fundamental hu=an motive is sympathy (including his term "invisible hand," inva=iably misunderstood.

Reminds me of a quip of Quine's abou= origin of language: it was invented so that we wouldn't just hit each=other.