Will: “Damn, how do people make things like that?”
Nick: “I’m guessing a very high visuo-spatial intelligence.”
Will: “I bet a superintelligence could create a whole universe like that.”
Both, after thinking for a few seconds: “Gyahh!!”
Will: “Everything would have an infinite amount of interpretations, all of them equally correct. Everyone’s beliefs would be right and everyone would be happy! Yay!”
Nick: “But whether or not everyone’s interpretations were equally correct would depend on one’s interpretation.”
Will: “Doesn’t this look like the world we live in?”
Will: “Damn, how do people make things like that?”
Nick: “I’m guessing a very high visuo-spatial intelligence.”
Will: “I bet a superintelligence could create a whole universe like that.”
Both, after thinking for a few seconds: “Gyahh!!”
Will: “Everything would have an infinite amount of interpretations, all of them equally correct. Everyone’s beliefs would be right and everyone would be happy! Yay!”
Nick: “But whether or not everyone’s interpretations were equally correct would depend on one’s interpretation.”
Will: “Doesn’t this look like the world we live in?”
This argument for postmodernism brought to you by the Singularity Institute Visiting Fellows Program.
*grumbles about how I ought to be a shoe-in*