Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA22820 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:41:04 GMT Message-ID: <570E2BEE7BC5A34684EE5914FCFC368C10FBC7@fillan.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: FW: MD Dawkins on quantum/mysticism convergence Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:34:25 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
lol
Presumably this could also be a fastfood restaurant where you could be both
in the queue to be served and be occupying a table? (and where the question
'eating in or taking out?' is always answered with 'both')....
Vincent
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> From: Scott Chase
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:31 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: FW: MD Dawkins on quantum/mysticism convergence
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> >From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: FW: MD Dawkins on quantum/mysticism convergence
> >Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:47:12 -0800
> >
> >>Since we cannot be certain of anything and our Western scientistic
> >>worldview crumbles at the subatomic level, whatever subjectivist mumbo
> >>jumbo
> >>I happen to spout is just as valid as whatever objectivist mumbo-jumbo
> you
> >>spout off. We are just two subjective ships passing along a sea of
> quantum
> >>uncertainty. My whims are as valid as your hard won knowledge.
> >>
> >>Does this help?
> >>
> >I'm not sure what it helps, but until we can agree with any certainty on
> >what the words we are using refer to, it pretty much states the case. A
> >lot
> >of the confusion can be cleared up by looking at what the writer is
> trying
> >to do with his words. As Wade pointed out, the man who is using his
> words
> >to sell snake oil does not use them to mean the same thing as the man who
>
> >is
> >using the same words to add to the world's body of knowledge. Meaning is
> >tied to context and intent. Words in isolation have no meaning.
> >
> >
> >
> I've been thinking about ways of capitalizing (that unknown ideal) upon
> the
> "quantum" adjective and all its subtle associations. Howze about a new
> chain
> of fast-food restaurants called the "Quantum Leap...a discreet place to
> eat"
> specializing in Heisen-burgers a menu option where you cannot
> simultanously
> be certain of both the burger toppings (lettuce, tomato, special sauce...)
>
> AND the specific side order (fries, onion rings, corn fritters...). It's
> probably been one already, but if not...
>
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