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This was an attempt to as literally and as thoroughly as possible answer the sort of question which I had, by this point, been asked many, many, many times. I’m glad that we continue to be, for the most part, products of unskilled labor.
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
Since “What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves,” all of our ideas are psychedelic. Even without experimenting with diet or drugs, whatever you think you should see, you will see — unless it is physically impossible in this universe.
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
There is a parable of the teacher who gives a student a challenge: Here is a stone. Here is a tower with one hundred stairs to the top. Your job is to bring the stone to the of the tower. Cradling the heavy stone, the student top manages to get it to the door of the tower. But the door is very narrow and the stone is too wide. No matter how the student turns the stone, it cannot fit through the door.
The task you have given me is impossible, cries the student. The teacher takes a hammer and cracks the stone open so that the pieces all fit easily through the door. The stone is your heart, says the teacher. Only a broken heart can rise upward
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
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