[ExI] EP and scale

[Spencer Campbell]

Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>:
> (Will Steinberg)
>
> > At first your hint seemed off-puttingly specific, but then I realized:
> > yes, of course, you can say the same of just about all uniquely human
> > behavior.

I wrote that, not Will. Assuming that's what the parenthetical meant.

Sorry for the delay, incidentally. Working through a huge backlog here.


Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>:
> People read and particularly post on mailing list to improve their
> status in the eyes of their peers.

Oh, yes. Makes sense. Surely you aren't implying that's the only
reason, but I don't find it hard to believe that it's the main one.

I wonder how one would go about curtailing status-seeking behavior in
Extropy-Chat posts...


Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>:
> Consider the coherence length and the size of a brain.  At the speed
> of light, how far can a signal get in 300 fs?  How far for typical
> nerve signal propagation speeds?

There are those leading questions again.

About 90 micrometers, for the former. I don't have time to look up the latter!