Absolute Uncertainty

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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by JimC » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:17 am

At least Scumple stimulates bursts of posting here...

They may be the dying twitches of our death throes, but better than nothing...
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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by cronus » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:29 am

JimC wrote:At least Scumple stimulates bursts of posting here...

They may be the dying twitches of our death throes, but better than nothing...
There is only going to be enough intellectual fuel for one survivor when the forum crashes out for good. Most cannot run their thinking gear at these low psychic energies, close to being in a CIA isolation chamber around here these later days. My Buddhist meditation training helps. To think here is nothing. The Zen and meaning of it. The Force. The Tao. The great cloud of unknowing. And all that mystical stuff. Yet still a rational site. :read:
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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by piscator » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:42 am

mistermack wrote:
piscator wrote:Incommensurable systems.
Any system of measurement is an abstraction, a reification. Reality is not.
Any measurement of anything can be considered wrong, because it always is. We can only approximate.
Except a stopped clock that is exactly right twice a day?
When, and according to what?
The verb in above sentence is the killer.

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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by Hermit » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:18 am

rEvolutionist wrote:
Scumple wrote:Keeping you all on a low boil whilst I ready the next experiment. :read:
Maybe you can synthesise the results of your experiments so far?
Nooooooooooo. Rather than answering your question there'll be yet more garblish.

Fake Eta: And here it is.
Scumple wrote:There is only going to be enough intellectual fuel for one survivor when the forum crashes out for good. Most cannot run their thinking gear at these low psychic energies, close to being in a CIA isolation chamber around here these later days. My Buddhist meditation training helps. To think here is nothing. The Zen and meaning of it. The Force. The Tao. The great cloud of unknowing. And all that mystical stuff.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by cronus » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:29 am

Hermit wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:
Scumple wrote:Keeping you all on a low boil whilst I ready the next experiment. :read:
Maybe you can synthesise the results of your experiments so far?
Nooooooooooo. Rather than answering your question there'll be yet more garblish.

Fake Eta: And here it is.
Scumple wrote:There is only going to be enough intellectual fuel for one survivor when the forum crashes out for good. Most cannot run their thinking gear at these low psychic energies, close to being in a CIA isolation chamber around here these later days. My Buddhist meditation training helps. To think here is nothing. The Zen and meaning of it. The Force. The Tao. The great cloud of unknowing. And all that mystical stuff.
I practice the woo for the coming dark age when it will be all the rage once again. :read:
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Re: Absolute Uncertainty

Post by Hermit » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:22 am

How very constructive.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

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