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Mar-12-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: *aruba* |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Madly Deeply>
<I am NOT A CREATIONIST!! > I know.
It was <Howard> I was worried about. I never knew until this minute that it was <Howard> all along... Connie Corleone |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <jess> I have the turtle theory. The world is carried through the universe on the back of a giant turtle. That turtle is on the back of another turtle. It's turtles all the way down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBmg... |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <jess> Here's a photo to go with it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotliz... |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Aha!
Well played, well played.
Unfortunately, it is not in fact <turtles all the way down>. The last turtle is standing on an <anteater>. You will recall that I *did* warn you about this... |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: The <all the way down> lady was on to something though. Infinity theory.
In mathematics the fundamental paradoxes of theories describing <infinite sets> reamain thoroughly unresolved. Maybe. Well if they were resolved I certainly wouldn't understand it, as I don't even know my "times tables." However:
<In one of his earliest papers, Cantor proved that the set of real numbers is "more numerous" than the set of natural numbers; this showed, for the first time, that there exist infinite sets of different sizes> <Cantor's Theorem>. Wrap your mind around that one. I don't think that anyone has actually "resolved" this paradox? Maybe there's a "work around" or something but again, I wouldn't understand it if there were. I'm pretty sure mathematicians haven't discovered a way to deal with the concept of infinity, or, since <Cantor>, infinities (!) that solves all the paradoxes. It's a race to solve the paradoxes before <anteaters> finish causing the wholesale collapse of the biosphere, as per <anteater theory>. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <jess> I have studying the anteater situation carefully and have found an article of interest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... |
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| Mar-12-09 | | Eyal: <There once was a scientist - some say it was Bertrand Russell...> Russell, in his <Why I Am Not a Christian>, actually cites a more intelligent response than "all the way down"... <If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."> Apparently some version of "all the way down" was already used in the 19th century to refer to beliefs based on infinite regression: <Like the old woman in the story who described the world as resting on a rock, and then explained that rock to be supported by another rock, and finally when pushed with questions said it was rocks all the way down - he who believes this to be a radically moral universe must hold the moral order to rest either on an absolute and ultimate should, or on a series of shoulds all the way down.> (William James, "The Sentiment of Rationality" [1898]) |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: "I have seen my generation laid waste by <vampire-loving boneheads>... Oh, what sorry times we live in when <anteaters> can say "Nit" to old women... |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Howard>
I am taking the problem very seriously. However, I don't have time to be the next <Pirsig> or <Kerouac>, so I just changed the name of my forum instead. Mrs. Internet Kid
<ANTEATERS WILL KILL YOU > |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: "It's a lion!"
<Cleese>: "No, Mr. Anchovy, what you've got ahold of there is in fact an anteater." |
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| Mar-12-09 | | achieve: <Jess> Two articles that no doubt will interest you and most guests here as well. http://www.gmsquare.com/interviews/... (Smyslov uncensored) http://www.gmsquare.com/computers.pdf (by Alex Dunne) |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <jess> A large emu carrying an anteater farm is on its way. |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <El Postalink>
Merry Christmas!!
Yes I read your <Smyslov> post at <Howard the Anteater's> house with great interest. Also, I haven't had time yet to look at the five <Rubin Fineman vids> that you and <Boomie> and <Howard the Anteater Advocate> left for me yet. I will be posting more tomorrow after work when I've had time to catch up with all of the links- It's a good thing you've shown up when you did. Frankly I'm a little worried about <Howard>. (I think he's become obsessed with anteaters, but it's probably best to humor him for the time being... these affairs can be a little "delicate" sometimes..) |
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| Mar-12-09 | | achieve: Well, when I show up, I show up. Delicacy is advised, indeed. Btw - my post at howards was prior to me discovering the interview. Worried about howard?
Nah, he's solid as a rock. Or sand. Or...
Yeah - I really appreciated the Feynman clips.... My Biochemistry professor was actually much like him, I realise now, but his passing was a huge blow to me I remember from that period. Of all people <HE> should have interpreted the signs correctly? Anyhoo - that forced- or enabled- a schism in me.
Only table tennis after that. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <jess> Anteaters are delicious. I am told they taste like chicken. I am developing a new theory of everything. Instead of turtles, it is ANTEATERS ALL THE WAY DOWN! Obsessed? Me? Not a chance. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | hms123: <niels> Thanks for both links. I enjoyed the longer Smyslov interview. I am currently playing through the correspondence games in the other link. Yours,
HMS, CEO
<Anteaters R Us> |
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Mar-12-09
 | | Domdaniel: <MS Infinity> Rudy Rucker - math geek turned fictioneer - is yer man for infinities. Has written several books about them. The already deeply paranoid Kurt Godel even let young Rudolph into his house once. Or as Brian Eno put it: "if we study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics we will find that their minds always move in a line". My regards to the Vinaver. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | Travis Bickle: Thanks Queen Jess for your fine contributions to my forum! I had my new 90 dollar speakers from Creative at high decibels for Goin Home, nobody was ever faster than Alvin Lee! I was going to choose Can't Find My Way Home, but you chose it for me. Here's 2 back at ya from Stevie Winwood.
; ) P.S. Turn It Up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzN0...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGj...
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| Mar-12-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Banana is too old according to GK.
I think he is just bitter though. |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks for the heads up! Or, as they say in <Montreal> when they are really really grateful- "Merci infinement."
I always loved that idiom. I wonder if "Froggaphones" say it anywhere outside of <Montreal>? It's grandiose.
"I'm so grateful that I'm going to hog the rest of your life (and more!) by standing here saying thank you over and over and over until you just want to |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Travissimo>=
"Blind Faith"- what a concert- and most all of it on youtube! I'm so glad you found it. An appropriate title- they were so taken aback by the "pre-release" faith that they would be the greatest super-rock group in history that they called themselves "Blind Faith." Originally, they were going to call themselves "The Anteaters." If <Eric Clapton> is God, then <Stevie Winwood> is Jesus. |
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Mar-12-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Wood>
<Garry Kasparov> is just a big baby. Really, he is. Much, much, more so than <Magnus Loseson>. <Kasparov> has never once considered the possibility that "he might be wrong" about one single thing he's ever said or done in his life. <Howard: Anteater Hunter> has just been teaching me about this in a TOP SECRET important EMU. Very good EMU <hms123: Anteater Slayer>!! I will be replying after work with a SHOCKING TOP SECRET STORY!! And, of course, there'll be sport. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <Keep it "up" old boy> haha
It is good for the posture though.
Apparently.
hehe |
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| Mar-12-09 | | madlydeeply: See...Fischer did it "all alone" and went nuts.
Kasparov had his mom help him. Not nuts.
Now...how far can we take this.
Was Morphy "going it alone"? How about Pillsbury? Reuben Fine? I thought about this once for about 5 minutes. officially a theory. |
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