Tuesday, November 26, 2002


Consider Transitions

From what to what? Or where to where? There is too much to think about as well as too much to visit. I am in my thinking about everyhting and then nothing phase again. Trying to break the program. Is madness just a local breakdown of the program? Maybe the system is designed to break down locally rather than completely. There is only ever a memory exception rather than a blue screen which requires a re-boot. All this is just random chatter. And what will happen when one of the programs begins to think about itself? One of my systems can quite happily handle recursion but that is because we know about error handling. What about thinking about the Catalogue of Catalogues which contains itself ... or doesn't.

Why did the BBC remove the brilliant theme tune from Horizon and replace it with a 2 second version? It was a complex, weird time-signatured, uplifting piece which gave us hope that science would save the world rather than destroy it. Like the programme itself, the music has been dumbed down until it just about holds an essence of the original without any of the emotion. There is a Horizon programme on tonight which is about homeopathy (It will probably be more like HomeAPATHY). That makes me sound as if I don't believe in it. Maybe I don't but there needs to be work done even if just to prove that the Placebo effect is in operation. I suppose there is the basic proof that the water used to dilute the active substance still retains some form of 'memory' of that substance long after the dilution has removed all chance of ever finding any molecules of the stuff ytou put in it. After all, Quantum theory has some weird ideas like electrons travelling through both slots. Why couldn't the molecules go into all the water? James Randi is involved again and while most of the time I do agree with him he does seem to be a bit 'Newtonian' if you know what I mean. For all normal experience he is right but just a few times something maybe involved that is still within the realms of science and yet off the wall enough to seem like 'magic'. This does not make me think that Uri Geller is anything other than a fraud and a showman by the way. If your computer does not work after visiting this site then don't blame me.

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