Newton's Ocean prodded me into some additional thoughts in his comments about the Crayon Physics Paradox post. He could be correct that I might be trying to force a square peg (math) into a round hole here (non-math). I'm still holding out hope for a math person to look at my distinctly non-math graph and say something like, "It's quite simple, the answer lies in an equation where you take the the sum of the limit of virtual reality as it approaches real reality..." I have a fancy for imposing math on non-math. Not a good quality for a guy whose worst grade in college was in calculus.* But then again, perhaps the CPP is just psychology.
However, I still see a bit of life in this near-dead horse, so I'm giving it another beating with my club:
The endorsment deals and broadcasting rights for this event would be huge! Stay tuned folks, don't touch that dial.
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*I deserve some slack, however. The teacher was on foreign exchange from China and his command of English was worse than my command of Chinese.
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I'm actually a great deal more concerned about genetically enhancing or optimizing people, not because I find that inherently evil, but because people (as a rule) are still ignorant enough to feel that they need to be superior to someone else. So, I see two directions, either the "enhanced" people become the norm and regular people are marginalized or (and I find this more likely though I'm not sure why), enhanced people are deliberately marked or otherwise made distinctive so they can be treated as slaves or other secondary person. Both concepts disgust me, but not because of antipathy toward the enhancees.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, I was in complete sympathy with Frankenstein's "monster" (though I didn't feel the author was).