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She is a PhD biologist who specializes in dna-level research on the co-evolution of plants and insects. She goes on motorcycle tours of the southern USA and northern Mexico, discovering nondescript species of native bees. She's a lot more sympathetic to my ideas of meta-evolution than you are... wonder why? Every now and then, when someone discovers something in the direction of my general ideas, she gets a little less eager to think that I'm a lunatic.

My concept is simple: a self-organizing system doesn't stop organizing just because biologists think it should.

John

I get that benefit as well. My business correspondence has improved quite a bit because of it.

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Issues? I design electronics. Take your amateur psychological counseling somewhere else and brush the dust off your oscilloscope.

John

If, as you say, "I design electronics", why is it that _every_ "circuit" you post here is crap, or extraordinarily vague with no component values, along with laughable "explanations"?

All the circuits I've posted WORK... supported by including the results with the post.

WTF don't you grow up and stop this continual diatribe? What happened, not enough attention as a kid? ...Jim Thompson

Little as I know, John Larkin knows less, and has a habit of posting particularly fatuous nonsense. When I point out that he is making an idiot of himself, he get exceedingly fractious.

Always as a way of being gratuitously offesnive. I have got some - but very little - consulting work over the years, and chasing more of it doesn't strike me as a useful way of filling up my time. I really ought to do some more work on the oscillator, but never seem to get around to it. It's in the queue behind the deferrable domestic chores, which tend to get done at the last minute.

I'm happy to imply that I'm smart, but I don't explicitly tell people that I'm clever. Correcting John Larkin's misinformation isn't claiming to be smart so much as claiming to be something like well- informed, as distinction that he doesn't seem to be willing to make.

Nobody is going to pay me for it here. If I ever get my current version of my variant on the Baxandall oscillator built and running I'll try to publish it in a peer-reviewed journal - I still won't get paid for it, but I will have a bigger audience.

That's not what you are being hypocritical about.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

That's not "amateur psychological counselling". He's telling you that you are complaining about an aspect of my behaviour that more obvious in yours. One doesn't have to be a psychologist to notice it or to find it more than a little ludicrous.

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She's probably more interested in keeping on speaking terms with you than I am.

But she still knows, deep down, that you basic ideas on the subject are irredeemably flawed.

No. But particular self-organising systems can only self-organise on the basis of the knowledge they can store. The DNA is is the only information that the cell can get at - give or take a spot of methylation - and it can't tell the cell enough to let it do the kinds of things that you like to claim it's doing.

It's basic system engineering, which you ought to be able to understand.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

The main aspect of your behavior that I comment on is that you post a huge amount of off-topic nonsense and insults and don't design electronics.

Do *you* have an oscilloscope to dust off? Goodness knows that this group churns up more than enough ideas to keep someone busy.

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You're not a climatologist or an economist or a biologist and, more important, you're not an electronics designer.

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I don't so much post off-topic nonsense as respond to it. You find my responses to your off-topic nonsense insulting rather than educational, but that's your problem, not mine..

Actually, I do. It will get plugged into the USB port on one of my computers when I've got something to measure. I was originally planning to buy it from Farnell, but found that I could get a better deal from the manufacturer, so bought it immediately - and prematurely, as it turns out.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

The OP started the thread there. Since it's turned into a pig wrestle I'll cut any crossposting that I see. ...Jim Thompson