Re: virus: MEME UPDATE: To Censor Or Not?

Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Mon, 16 Dec 1996 23:09:00 -0500 (EST)


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> Well jings. So either language and maths are fundamentally flawed for the
> purposes of understanding how things work (because they produce results like
> Godel's theorem, and mad things like the turbulence between Relativity and
> Quantum Mechanics), or language and maths are valid, but the universe is, by
> its very nature, trippy and impossible for us to understand. Cool! (Sorry,
> one of my top hobbies is Being Baffled.)

Nothing keeps both of these statements from being simultaneously true,
ie:

o Languages are fundamentally flawed and thus unable to express the
Way Things Are.
o Things are fundamentally impossible to understand.

Its not a very /relevatory/ state to assume that reality is in, but
certainly not impossible or even improbable.