From: leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung)
Subject: Definition of LOVE (was: Stand up girls! Re: Why? Why? Now I am telling you why.)
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:36:15 GMT

chris@iastate.edu (Chris WONG) writes:
>
> Don't play mathematics in love!

Well, the real issue is _how_ you play it in the love game. Not only
maths (BTW, maths is just a little bit, engineers hate proof too :-)
is necessary, but also synthesis, programming, modeling, simulation,
and of course, user interface, (must be graphic and X-based nowadays). 

OK, Raymond has raised a legitimate question on the operator "and," although 
I found his reasoning a bit tricky. Because in Teresa's original statement,
it is "Love is two ways. Give and take." So, "give and take" clearly refers
to the names of the functions (the two ways) and I interpreted it this way:

   Perceive_Love_By(A,B) = give_to(A,B) + take_from(A,B)

Note: Perceive_Love_By is not commutable, i.e., Perceive_Love_By(A,B) is not  
      necessarily equal to Perceive_Love_By(B,A)

But obviously, we still have a problem, because the return values of the
two functions are not well-defined in the first place. (Some may think, for 
example, that it is a string value, while others may think it is numeric,
and yet others think it's an array or a record!) So, we need to fix this 
first before we can develop any algorithms for the VR venture. So, here is
my proposed fix:

1. Definition

   Love is an n-tuple value of numerics, and functions give_to and take_from 
returns a Love value. (Let's put aside the issue of the range of the values
for a moment.)

   n can be very large and in order to make the complexity manageable, we
need to set n to be small. (What is the reasonable value of n is a future
research issue and let's also put this issue aside.)

   Now, consider n=2.

   I propose to call the two values affection and desire. Hence, Love(Oi) is
a composite value consists of affection(Ching) and desire(Yuk).

Comments:
   * a negative value of love is hate;
   * ordinary usage of Oi/Ching in our daily language is very ambiguous but
     is clear in this formulation;
   * this formulation will enable one to distinguish the love between
     parents-children from the love between husband-wife;
   * it does not have built-in preference for certain sexual orientations,
     so it is politically correct;
   * desire represents bio-physiological response and is sexual in nature;
   * affection represents emotional response and is sensual in nature;
   * rational response is thus not covered in the n=2 case.

   Now, obviously, the real world is complex, i.e., it has a REAL and imaginary
part. (Notice the overloading of the term real and the letter case for denoting
the two different meanings.) So, the Love value is a complex 2-tuple value, let's
denote it as LOVE. It should be obvious by now that the Love value in VR is simply the imav
part! i.e. Love=Re(LOVE) and lOVE=Im(LOVE), where lOVE is
the short hand notation of love in VR. Wow, what a great discovery!

   So far, we treat this LOVE value as time-invariant. Obviously, this value
is time-variant in the real world. So, this means that we have synchronous
and asynchronous love, serial, paralell, and concurrent love, etc.

   Before we turn to the different types of relationships (1-1, 1-many, many-
to-many) let's step back to consider the range of the values. Ooops, ...
time is up, let's forget about the range of the values after all. ...

Steven
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328. Seek opportunity, not security. ...
        - Life's Little Instruction Book by H. J. Brown, Jr.

From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:48:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Ph.D. in Hong Kong and U.S. (Re: They got no brain...)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.