On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:06:34 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau
wrote:


As someone wrote, "Reality is anything you want it to be. Just close
your eyes and let your imagination run wild."
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Cheers,

John B.

LOL Pat Tillman!

:-) But even a casual reading of the "social networks" seems to prove
my point :-)

Actually I was reacting to what I wanted to react to not exactly what you said.
What trips me out is when people say you make your own reality. Certainly it is a lovely thought and a lovely thing to say to someone seeking inspiration, and certainly the Olympic gold medalist subscribes to the theory. But where does that leave the silver medalist? Who believed and believed and believed and busted and busted and busted their ass?
Derek Porter was my first rowing hero. He was in an 8 that got a gold in 92, and was world champ in 93, IIRC, and thot 96 was his year. Look at him try to hold back the tears on the podium in 96* and again in 00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wViOIIh7pUU
https://www.google.com/search?q=Dere... cw4dTFyxb5M:

*It is well worth watching the whole race, for other reasons.

Cheers

And I was thinking of the Facebook account that "went viral" recently
here about the newly constructed, not yet finished "high-rise" that
was going to fall over. See http://tinyurl.com/y83kdemv

I remember reading somewhere that:

"The potential collective intelligence of a human group is
exponentially proportional to group size, however in practice the
actual collective intelligence that is achieved by a group is
inversely proportional to group size. There is a huge delta between
potential collective intelligence and actual collective intelligence
in practice. In other words, when it comes to collective intelligence,
the whole has the potential to be smarter than the sum of its parts,
but in practice it is usually dumber."

to quote http://tinyurl.com/yd68nx2

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Cheers,

John B.