MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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"One of the simplest and yet most startling features of infinity is that there is no third possibility between infinity and bounded. A personal self-image in which one is inherently bounded, or a political or economic philosophy in which progress is inherently bounded, or a philosophy of science in which knowledge is inherently bounded, all lead to self-fulfilling prophecies in which one expects, and then encounters, THAT bound sooner rather than later." - David Deutsch.
Hmm, I'd say his personal limitation is clarity of expression.
What's your point caller?
I can see a tree outside my window 🙂
got to "self-fulfilling" and thought, hmm.. yeah, I'm hungry.. *yawn!* 😉
Im off for lunch in a mo. Emmental Cheese and Peppered German Salami sandwiches in the back garden. Yum yum
surely you mean "aroused", don't you ?... and thought, hmm.. yeah, I'm hungry..
I know I am
packet of pickled onion Monster Munch and some home made chocolate brownie with fresh Devon clotted cream for me.. aka the healthy option
Have you read Douglas Hofstadter? The bounds you refer to require that systems are self referential, which by their very nature gives them poor concurrent external validity. Nevertheless we are happy to accord them meaning. Which sort of undermines the quotation really.
I was about to say [i]exactly[/i] the same thing.
I think it was Wittgenstein who wrote:
"You see that big dog-poo on the pavement over there? That's you dinner, that is"