Monday, January 28, 2013

Don't worry so much about duplication...

I've been saying this for a long time--on philosophical not scientific grounds, I suppose.   It was the beautiful mind of Georg Cantor that led me to it--although I doubt my reasoning would qualify as mathematical or scientific.  
Cantor "proved" that some infinities can be bigger than others. 

Even if the universe is infinite,  it doesn't mean that there are somewhere an indefinite number of near replications of *moi*--or anybody else.   In fact, an infinite universe could contain an infinite number of planets &  yet there might not be a single true duplication of anything... 

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dont-infinite-scientists.html




 
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Post-revolutionary society...or the Reign of Heaven...or

Whatever...(as the children say)...

We Semi-Marxist-Taoistic, Shamanoid, Zen-ish, Neo-Christians tend to avoid explicit depictions of that which is indicated in the subject line because we do not know what humanity at that point may find valuable, or what stuff innovations may make possible, desirable or necessary.   Still, with the caveat that all such representations are inevitably conditioned by the era of their creation, I should like to recommend the movie:

*Bagdad Cafe* 

as providing a sort of ghost of a hint of what social conditions could be like--at least at the end of the movie.  

R. 
 
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