>>>The exercises he poses are interesting, and even amusing at times, but they have no concrete value that I can tell.
>>>Of course, the question of what is value, reality, consciousness can always be brought up with no precise way of defending it.
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>>To defend my ideas, and cement their value, I've proposed radical thought experiments that have never been proposed. Ever.
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>>Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, I am the only person in the world who understands my thought experiment.
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>No one does hubris quite like the young ;-)
There is some kind of web service - like a time capsule - where you can send a message to be delivered at some point in the distant future. Tempted to forward Mike's last message to be delivered on his 40th birthday ( or when the court ordered Thorazine kicks in <s> )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
