Ophiolite
Recalcitrant Procrastinating Ape
Clearly my explanatory, paranthetic remark about tone, has done the reverse of what I intended. I used the word tone to convey a sense of the plethora of features that are part of any language communication. I imagine there is a proper technical term for it. I wished to emphasise that I was not using tone in the sense it is used in phrases like, "I don't like your tone".Which is a long way of saying that I didn't intend to treat you with disrespect, it's just that, uh, I actually know things about this topic, or at least I think I know
Consequently, your perception that I thought you had been disrespectful to anyone was wrong. Quite the reverse; you have been respectful in a direct, unassumed manner, one that does not ape the forms of respect, but accords it in a natural, genuine fashion. Thank you for that.
Thank you also for acknowledging that calling your thoughts a theory may not apply in a scientific sense. That simple acknowledgment frees me up read more intensively what you have written, with considerable interest. That is something that my - let's call it an obsession - with using the the word theory appropriately would not have let me do otherwise.
For me, AI is probably the most interesting thing that has happened in the last quarter century. (Or possibly my lifetime, which is three quarters of a century.) So, if you don't mind I might (very) occassionally fire a question on AI in your direction via pm. If you'd rather not, that's fine.
[Aside: I probably abused the word theory as much as anyone else in my youth. Perhaps I now seek to make amends.]
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