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From: jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
Summary: Do what?
Message-ID: <1708@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 18:39:10 GMT
References: <89292.214352MNOJEIM@AUVM.BITNET>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <89292.214352MNOJEIM@AUVM.BITNET>, MNOJEIM@AUVM.BITNET writes:

> i dont know where i am, dont know how to get back to where i was.
> 
> help me...

Help you do what?

There's nothing wrong with not knowing where you are.
In fact, it's a very common situation.

There's also nothing wrong with not knowing how to get back 
to where you were. In most cases, you can't ever get back 
to where you were because it has changed in the meanwhile,
or you have changed in the meanwhile. 

Besides, you haven't asked to get back to where you were,
or to know where you are, so I can't determine your intentions.
Sort of like the problem we're having with Nature.

Jim Winer -- The opinions expressed here are not necessarily
	     and do not represent nor in any way imply
	     of any other sane person and especially not
	     employer.
"My reply is that such pre-theoretical conceptual essences are often
riddled with deep ambiguity and internal incoherence, despite strong
convictions people have that they know what they mean." -- Aaron Sloman