Our defining quality as humans is our ability to substitute real-world concepts for abstract rules and symbols, and make connections between these symbols that can be put to practical use. It is these higher reasoning skills that seperate us from other life forms, and enable us to form bodies of information in the form of math and science. This panel demonstrates symbolic thought in the form of a computer program; basic pieces of information are arranged in a way that is useful, and put to practical use through our ability to harness digital information. Given a set of rules and behaviors discovered through empirical methods of trial and error, our natural world can be better understood and manipulated, and to truly understand is to be human.
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Tom: Simply, you rock. Thanks for the post and ALL your help.
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