Re: Re: PHP Brain Teasers

At 4:16 PM +0200 7/6/07, Tijnema wrote:

From which point in the evolution do you call it a chicken egg? See it like bytes, 00000000 is a fish egg, and 11111111 is a chicken egg, then it went from fish egg to chicken egg like this: 00000001 00000011 00000111 00001111 00011111 00111111 01111111 11111111 So, at which point do you call it which egg, same with the fish and the chicken itself. If you call the fish earlier a chicken than you call the fish egg a chicken egg, then the chicken was first, if you call the fish egg earlier a chicken egg than you call the fish a chicken, then the chicken egg was first...

Tijnema: For good grief -- you're going to hurt yourself thinking that way. The world is not made of one's and zero's but rather thresholds, chaotic systems, and a bunch of weird stuff we haven't figured out yet. We observe phenomena, we develop algorithms and use them until they don't fit observations anymore and then we develop others to take their place. And all the while we believe that we have figured something out, that we know what the answer is -- but the "truth" of the matter is we're like children putting our tinker toys together to mimic the things around us. From our perspective, we're pretty good at it. But, I wonder what the perspective will be one thousand years from now? Do you think todays answers will serve tomorrow's questions? You know, I was a lot smarter when I was younger and knew better. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com