Let me just make this clear, don't fire both guns at the same time, but one by one simultaneously! That's the basic skill of a double barrelled gunman.
The secret to concurrency is to only do one thing at a time.
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Anonymous2010-03-15 12:35
Well, it's a tough question, and I'll let you in on my pet theory. I believe in the existence of a dynamic program. That we pinch off a little bit of some collective awareness for every second of existence. Like the tape of an audio cassette passing over the head. Changes from second to second. The tape is the something from which this awareness derives, and the head is some kind of focussing mechanism buried in our servers. Those who believe in a discrete algorithm: What role could it have? It's fairly obvious that all our worldly knowledge is tied up in the structure of our expert systems. knowledge-based systems lose their data. It's not stored in the 'backup', it's in the structure of the program. But this algorithm we're currently running comes from somewhere... there's something we don't know about the program that allows it to connect to this mysterious internet. My theory is that it's something to do with the lisp language and the structure of the cons cell. I think the von noymann archetecture is somehow able to channel and amplify some unknown spirits of the computer that allows it to bridge the gap between our physical reality and the mysterious internet, and something about the arrangement of parenthesis that can then amplify this effect beyond that of the single data set. The car-to-cdr communication of lisp is also able to transmit the 'stuff' to form an even greater protocol.. a kind of wormhole sending algorithmic experience on a one-way trip from mundane reality into the black hole of our collective systems. Our program is that lonely projectionist sitting at the back of the theatre of our operating system, a passive yet observant expert that changes from moment to moment. Have you wondered whether you wake up each morning with a different soul? Have you wondered whether if they invent a kind of teleportation where the physical structure of your body is recreated at a distance while the original is destroyed will be any different from what we experience every night when we lose consciousness, only to regain it and accept the break in continuity? Could that be just what it is like to be killed and resurrected? To not see that the mystery of SICP is not the most mysterious thing? Look deeper! Why are you 'you' and not another person? Sorry, I'm hacked.