Completely tangential: many, many years ago, shortly after reading Hofstadter’s discussion of counterfactuals in GEB that starts with him driving through a cloud of bees, I accidentally dropped a bowl on the ground.
The bowl shattered into fragments, and I said “Well, it’s a good thing I’m me instead of being that bowl!”
Completely tangential: many, many years ago, shortly after reading Hofstadter’s discussion of counterfactuals in GEB that starts with him driving through a cloud of bees, I accidentally dropped a bowl on the ground.
The bowl shattered into fragments, and I said “Well, it’s a good thing I’m me instead of being that bowl!”
It was quite some time before I lived that down.