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| From: | "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | 2012年5月24日 20:47:40 +0000 |
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Pat, have you ever read any Stanislaw Lem (or maybe Boges)? You’ll find a compatriot. My favorite is Imaginary Magnitude.
Thanks,
Leo
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Perhaps it’s a high-school research project?
For amusement (hopefully): http://www.micra.com/speculations/IntelligentDesign.doc
Pat
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This question makes me wonder what other thing, **besides** a fact, you might propose to be knowing?My wife and I are pretty well acquainted with one another. Hence, I can truthfully say, I know Jackie.
But you could be just a brain in some kind of Capital Gains Tax. Wait - that doesn't sound right.
Personally I think we're all just computer simulated agents in a long running pan-dimensional university research project. I explains so many things; quanta are the result of fixed precision floating point - hence also those weird quantum effects; they're just rounding errors. Gravity and Quantum mechanics don't fit well together? Implemented by different postdocs. Myths of paradisiacal rewards and eternal life; clear parallel with the myth of tenure-track positions. And I think we all see where our myths of this all-powerful bearded figure come from.
I call this hypothesis Gradical Skepticism.
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