Yup. My son went out to the nearby park and met a dozen other people there hunting for Pokémons. People have already had car accidents and tumbled off of cliffs while out hunting.
Declares LewRockwell.com : "All of this means that while the government has been artificially propping up the economy and 'stimulating' it through artificial means, peoples’ perceptions of economic life have been transformed into that which was intended by the central planners: the economic crush is over, our government cured all the problems, things are great again, go back to your old ways. Rinse and repeat."
Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach contained some interesting musings on recursion, computation, self-reference, and so on. But of course is main "oomph" was that it was going to use all of these musings to explain consciousness. And the explanation? "This is it -- this is what consciousness is . Consciousness is that property of a system that arises whenever there exists symbols in the system which obey triggering patterns somewhat like the ones described in the past several sections" (385). Can you imagine someone in a real science, one that makes real discoveries, offering an "explanation" like that? "Planets just are those celestial objects that move in the sky in that funny way." "Atoms just are those things that cause chemicals to form in the patterns they do." "Evolution just is the process of new species coming into being." Such a phony would be laughed right out of the scientific community. In a real s
Just shoot me now. Am I going to have to deal with people in the streets who walk around "looking" for pokémon in the "real world"?
ReplyDeleteYup. My son went out to the nearby park and met a dozen other people there hunting for Pokémons. People have already had car accidents and tumbled off of cliffs while out hunting.
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DeleteAm I horrible if I find this one mildly amusing.