regarding getting into someone's head: of course, that's what every successful <stalker> does to his victims - it's the long term effect of mounting psychological pressure, for instance by unwanted, intrusive presence in someone's online life. (i want him out of mine!) a physician with expertise in psychology is presumedly a dangerously skilled player of "mind games" (his own term), but i don't think neither his guild nor the law would approve of this specific application of his knowledge.

ocf, go to http://encyclopedia.thefreedictiona... and read and ponder what it says. "store" it for future reference. note for yourself that i generally have no interest in knowing what the master stalker and his apprentice are up to - with a very few temporary exceptions i've had both on my ignore list for the best part of the past 3 years. their apparent interest for what i do around here, however, has been obsessive and relentless. the doc seemingly does searches of user: frogbert on a regular basis, blurting excerpts from his "findings" often enough to create an experience of constant surveillance.

do you think that's something to brag about? it's very much borderline to a criminal act (see the reference above and us legislation on the subject), and it's certainly abuse of his professional knowledge. and his actions are very much <intended to cause harm>, cf the snippet that bureau cited in the cafe. cg.com's issue by issue policy of handling incidents has created a loophole for the kind of resilient drop by drop torture (consider physical water drop torture...) that's been unfolding here. weaker persons may have cracked and taken permanent damage for much less.

Chess players are the new avant-gardeners, the leading edge of the Now. This is due to the influence of analysis engines, much as we may deplore them in other ways. Yes, they make it easier – and for some people more tempting and profitable – to cheat in competitive play. Yes, they allow weak players to scorn and criticize moves made by leading grandmasters, often without having the foggiest idea why a move is ‘wrong’ other than ‘Frybker says…’

But think about the wider context. In a few years – assuming ‘our’ civilization survives (‘our’ does not connote ownership, btw … at least our planet has yet to acknowledge my share of the title deeds) – such expert systems will be ubiquitous. I don’t mean Wikipedia or similar filtered collections of human knowledge: but machines that can out-think expert humans in circumscribed areas.

How will we react when our phones contain an entity which can think better than Archimedes, Einstein, Newton or Von Neumann? That can extrapolate trends more precisely than McLuhan, Gibson or Toffler? That can philosophize more pertinently than Quine, Foucault, Rorty, and Descartes?

I’m just reading names off my book ‘shelves’ – actually piles – here. There are other names. There may even be some I haven’t read.

What will we do with a *real* Turing Machine? A Korzybski Machine? A Burroughs Machine, with a hole in its electric arm for opiated data? A Zizek Module with a Baudrillard filter and Platonic boosters? An invisible Pynchon machine?

that depends on what theory you believe in - 'random evolution' or 'conscious evolution'.

neuroscientist Rudy Tanzi says that conscious evolution theory can not be ruled out.

and thoughts do change biology (DNA) says Rudy Tanzy

This kind of thing happens all the time. Some word with an exact scientific meaning (quantum, relativity, etc) is picked up and thrown around by people who don't even know they're being metaphoric.

Are they peer-reviewing youtube already?

Might be a good idea if you took Nemesistic's advice. It was very conscious advice, very highly evolved.

yes, it would be a good idea if we stay out of each other's way (because i would not like to be disrespectful to you if i find you talking to me in a know-all way again especially about the things i believe you don't know much about) - such a conscious decision would be very nice.

It's the best iv'e played in a few years, so i'd like all higher rated players than myself who like a Kings Gambit to take a look..

Iv'e told you i wont argue with a member of the womens weekly club, think of tpstar and "the site", frogbert lol..

See frogbert, i admit im not intelligent like Dom and others here.. In fact most of my posts begin with...."Im no expert on this, but...." and end with the classic "Lol"..

But im not thick either, there is a difference... If you have anything at all to say about that 1 game then spit it out, otherwise it'll lose its innarest!!

Good luck!

I could go on and on about predictive programming, sufficient rest, coffee, medication, - a combination may be ideal - but I'd like to keep this in the realm of the supernatural, which is a no-no in certain circles.

Well then...

Give the old lamp a good rub, Alladin old cock, let it shine! - and it will all come true.

Best wishes to my old nemesis frogbert as well, of course.