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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
Summary: Getting one's bearings and charting a course.
Keywords: Cybernetics and Navigation.
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Date: 29 Oct 89 14:24:23 GMT
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In article <89292.214352MNOJEIM@AUVM.BITNET> MNOJEIM@AUVM.BITNET writes:

 > I don't know where I am, don`t know how to get back to where I was.

 > Help me...

For starters, you are a Homo sapiens on the planet earth, in an epoch
approximately 4 1/2 billion years since the formation of the Solar
System.  You are a carbon-based life-form with extraordinary information
processing capacity, including the ability to think and solve problems.

Now, please look around you and describe the world in which you
find yourself embedded.  How does it differ from the the world
in which you started?  Do you know what path you have been following
which brought you to where you are today?

--Barry Kort