Late one night at MA, Nemo and Ras discussed the 1920s minutes of MA in SF via Jack London. Resonance with a large fish eye view of SF revealed the embedded chips lurking at the subliminal level. This sparked a mind-opening discussion of a dollar driven neuro-peptide link into the AI mind of the global NET. Captain Nemo steamed about wildly upon the vista while the more reductionist Rasputin attempted a solid foothold on the neural structures available to him. The feedback loops between the global network of money, computers, business, people, ideas etc. became obvious.
Money was seen as the peptide 'dinner bell' that neural routers both fed on and used to energize the industrial complex global body endocrine channels.The Equation for Money in a Post-Industrial Economy
Ras next steered the conversation into evolutionary levels and we discovered that there are quite a few mysteries involving lineages of Y chromes vs. mitochondria. The Neandertaals are still silent however.( mtDNA and the Disappearance of Pheno-/Genotypes )
DeWayne dropped a bomb inabsentia with a paper on 'randomness' as the basic building block of the great all. Nemo and Ras were in agreement that the Dali Lama says "It needs further study". (see Cahill and Klinger in New Scientist magazine)
Finally Nemo finished off the meeting with a demonstrative reading of Woody Allen's "Getting Even", wherein GOD himself was finished off by a sexy blond leaving the PI with nothing but an ultra-abstract appertif of semantics.( e-prime )
It was a full night at the lodge.