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Comment Re:Theory versus practice again... (Score 1) 41

is intelligence an energing property of language?, or is language an emerging propperty of intelligence?, interesting take.

Intelligence is resource expensive, so it needs to be a net benefit to the animal. If an animal can manipulate and improve its local environment, intelligence will help it make better changes. Thus, Intelligence is an emerging property of manipulating the local environment. Language allows an animal to share complex ideas with others, complex ideas require intelligence to create and understand.
Language, then, is an emerging property of intelligence.

Comment Re:Yeah but... (Score 1) 221

CTRL_ALT_F2
Login
top or ps -e -f | grep [program name] to find the offending program
kill -9 [procID of offending program]
exit
CTRL_ALT_[usually one of F5 F6 F7 or F8] to get back to GUI.

Computer is happy.
Yes, this is more intimidating than "reboot computer".
But it does show you can fix problems in Linux without rebooting.
And if the above doesn't work, it's almost guaranteed to be a hardware problem (so stop blaming Linux for faulty hardware).

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