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...ave his deeds classified as achievements. Intention is a paramount criterion in the classification of events and actions, as any intensionalist phil... ... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...simplicity yields complexity (via pattern identification, the application of rules, classification, and other human pursuits). This dependence on hu... ...fanfare. It seems that the "model-adjustment" activities require abstract thinking (classification, theorizing, predicting, testing, etc.). The rela... ...n we consider the Internet "philosophically": 1. A Genetic Blueprint 2. A Chaotic Library 3. A Collective Nervous System 4. An Unknown Continent ... ...ent structure, and semantics). This would bring the Internet closer to the classic library card catalogue. Even in its current, pre-semantic, hyper... ...g. We may be on the threshold of a self-aware Web. 2. The Internet as a Chaotic Library A. The Problem of Cataloguing The Internet is an asso...

...of advertising now host a clutch of creative boutiques comfortably ensconced behind Chinese walls. Such outfits often manage the accounts of compet... ...U.S. dollars, forcing up U.S. interest rates and undermining the U.S. stock market. Chinese military officials, he claimed, had included this kind o... ...Revised January 1972 Buchanan, James M. - The Demand and Supply of Public Goods - Library of Economics and Liberty - World Wide Web: http://www.e... ... Goods - Library of Economics and Liberty - World Wide Web: http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCv5c1.html Samuelson, Paul A. - The Pure The... ...re will always be the odd position which the robot will find hard to locate in its library. A human disk thrower or swimmer may easily be passed ov... ...xist with other, older, different cultures. That is why I went into this elaborate classification of cultures. I hope I made myself a lot clearer ...

... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ... 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind... ...ssor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... By organizing entries alphabetically, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and library catalogs let us go quickly to a section with entries beginning wit... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...e, he began a systematic study of libraries that led to his Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amhers... ...nge and to amass book inventories once unimaginable.  The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) made those huge book inventories manageable and easy ... ...le for Andrew Carnegie’s public libraries. Melvil Dewey’s Decimal Classifications system made them easy to find by checking data cards in...

...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...