disagreements among well
known, vividly articulate personalities.&amp;nbsp; My response is to avoid
attempting a resolution of basic philosophical issues by asking for
agreement
where possible; when agreement is not possible, compromise on the
implementation
of these issues in a way that doesn't do violence to deeply held
beliefs.&amp;nbsp;
One is asking for agreement on the design of a computational artifact -
not realism vs nominalism, etc.&amp;nbsp; Newtonian vs relativistic physics
might be useful as an