Now all one has to do is write it.

[razorsmile]

Imagine a world much like our own where the Einsteins and Feynmans and Turings and Von Neumanns all manifested in the fields of neuroanatomy, behavioural psychology, linguistics and logic. Imagine a world where Zeno’s Paradox has made tremendous headway in its unending battle with Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem. Intuition has been mapped, the

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Sounds a lot like A.E. Van Vogt's world to me. A friend loaned me a book of his short stories, they seem to have aged incredibly well for being almost 60-70 years old. I think it's because the tropes are more mental and physiological in nature (ie; his heroes that are free of Aristotelian thinking and can teleport and do all sorts of mentat shit)

/if you think that you can stay/then you must just find a way/to have a say in it/

[razorsmile]

You know, the rules for pirates are a lot like the rules of faerie - never apologize, never back down and - this is absolutely critical - most important of all, know the rules better than the other guy.

when push comes to shove you've got to do what you love...even if its not a good idea

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Sounds like advice from Hermes Conrad!

[__marcelo]

Now all one has to do is write engineer it.

I'd love to be a genius, so I could put my brain where my mouth is.

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But ... but your mouth is a genius!

[__marcelo]

Pure talk. I wish I could build a tenth of the shit I talk about.

Come to think about it, I'm having a third-of-life crisis because I've realized that I'm not on a path that'll allow me to, and that feels like I'm wasting my life.