Re: [ontolog-forum] [ontology-summit] Estimating number of all known fac

["Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry: Borges.

 

From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
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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

 

From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Cassidy
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Perhaps it’s a high-school research project?

 

   For amusement (hopefully):  http://www.micra.com/speculations/IntelligentDesign.doc

 

Pat

 

Patrick Cassidy

MICRA Inc.

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From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Spero
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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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