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Old 10-20-12, 07:12 PM   #7
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I must admit that by all my sympathy for the scientific method, I think it is too careless and undisciplined in the reach it claims validity for. An intelligence of a totally different kind than ours, able to think in more than three dimensions, may come to totally different models of a functioning science, mathematics, time and cosmos. And we would be unable to recognise it as such.
Dang. Spilled my drink.

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Why? I don't know any more than anybody else does, and I don't see that anybody else knows anything.
Well if they do they aren't making it stick.

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Now to the next level: can we even know anything for sure?

I know for sure it's Saturday night.
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