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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>>>…</b>wishing you the very best always…spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Spike you are so sweet…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You are far too kind. That gives me an idea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we could somehow measure it objectively, create a factor, call it K sub s, we could have contests, create teams, go for records, that sorta thing (I’ll take SR, Anders Sandberg, MB, BillW, both our Bills (fine gentlemen they are…)) oh what a kick that would be. Even if the ExI team loses, I can still cash in on ad sales.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of course if we found a way to measure Ks, the yahoos would soon recognize the possibilities of the opposite, form teams, compete at the Angry Bitter Olympics. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh wait, never mind, we already have those: national elections.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Absurd, you say? Well, ja. But think of it this way: the poets and whimsical songwriters go on with the clearly erroneous notion that the heart is the seat of emotions, the brain being the seat of intellect. I have long considered it a false correlation: the brain is the seat of both. The heart doesn’t generate feelings, the brain tells the heart when to flutter, the knees when to wobble. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK then, if the brain is the seat of emotions, then a super-brain is capable of super-emotion. The smarter the person, the better as a potential lover (and alas, the more extreme potential hater.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There are practical difficulties with the notion of creating a Sweetness Olympics of course, but if we could do such a thing, this old world would be a kinder and gentler place. May it be so.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>