(Boy, what a free-for-all. This is the most traffic I've seen on this list so far. :-) Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: > (and I won't get into my ex's view of "Every thought, feeling, > idea, concept, sense, etc., is all a product of chemical reactions > in our brain, and it's perfectly possible that no one is in the > universe except me"... It's a little too much...:) Oh, why not? Except for the bit of solipsism at the end, that statement appears to be true. When I was in college twenty years ago, neuroscience had already gotten a handle on a few things, and lately it seems that hardly a week goes by that some new neural mechanism isn't uncovered and explained. More and more, it appears that we truly _are_ these wet, mushy lumps inside our skulls. And, the more I learn about this kind of thing, the more I wonder whether we would, after all, be able to communicate effectively with an intelligent being from a different evolutionary background. It seems that huge areas of our basic modes of communication are based in our neurophysiology. Interesting times, these, definitely. -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/