On 01-01-98 John Boone wrote to Day Brown... 
 JB>   There are some issues which aren't dependent upon "data",  
 JB> digital or otherwise, but rather values.  For you to say, we  
 JB> will have complete agreement on issue based upon values means  
 JB> we will have agreement in "values" which contradicts the  
 JB> supposition.  
 JB>   Day, this comes down to, will we or will we NOT agree on   
 JB> values.  I realize it has been you thoughts that "reason"  
 JB> alone or perhaps control the "values" thus giving a common  
 JB> basis.  It has been my contention rather that reason alone  
 JB> will not be sufficient.  
I agree that reason has not been sufficient for *most* people, 
who, for one reason or another, do not think well.  But, that is 
not to say that it cannot, as Aristotle provides an example. 
 
 JB>  DB> thirty years, I can hardly imagine anyone with the hubris to say  
 JB>  DB> that the global mainframe/database is wrong. Will GIGO still be   
 JB>  DB> around? If so, it will take a very deep mind to see it.   
 JB>   
 JB>   As I have pointed many times before, the data is often not 
 JB> argued, but rather -how- the data is used.  I have given many  
 JB> examples pretaining the liberal mantra of "discrimination"  
 JB> based upon the "59% cliche" when the data is looked at from  
 JB> another point of view one gets another conclusion.  
 JB>   You almost seem to say the data is it.  
 Part of the 'data' that Aristotle had was the plays of Sophocles 
and the writings of Homer, and the poems of Sappho.  Part of the 
extension of Moore's law is seen in the hype about MMX and all the 
virtual reality stuff developing, which teach *allegorically*.  At 
some point, I expect to have the plays of Sophocles on this screen 
in front of me now, but unlike the TV, I can back it up, or stop 
the action at will for annotated information, say, Aristotle's. 
 
I do knot know that we will all reach compleat agreement, just am 
saying that is the trend of development, which agreed, has a long 
way to go.  I just do not know that it won't get there. 
 
There is considerable historical and anthropologic evidence to 
show that values are changed over time by adjustments to the real 
changes in the social and physical enviornment.  As the world is 
well on the way to becoming homogeneous, I would expect that value 
system which is in the most concurrance with those conditions will 
be adopted. 
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