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Part II of this interview will follow shortly. | Part II of this interview will follow shortly. | ||
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+ | I saw this when it first came out in eDit_C#. It struck me as being a rather poor piece of journalism at the time, and though I grant that it is perhaps more "on topic" in this forum than it ever was in the magazine, my opinion remains unchanged. | ||
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+ | There are so many flaws here that it is hard to know where to begin. The interviewer fails to elicit the context, which remains unclear throughout; it's virtually impossible to get a picture of who (or what?) these people are and what they are actually doing - or why this is even important to us in the first place. (And after all, it hardly takes much to suspect that the whole interview is mere fabrication anyway.) | ||
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+ | In sum: why would anyone waste time on this? m( | ||
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+ | --uncookedprecaution | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:58 pm | ||
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+ | Thank you for your comments, uncookedprecaution. | ||
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+ | Maybe if you followed some of the links (or read some of the other forum posts) you might find some ' | ||
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+ | Re: fabrication, | ||
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+ | --Motionless Detector | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:52 pm | ||
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+ | When your magisterial words, I was my mouth fell right open. Far away! Your powerful and effective ideas took me on the next great wave and earnestly wish triumph in some latest presidential elections. Your support given to you I tremble with awe. This time I trust with all my soul right and sincere collaborations after reading your soulful mind eye, it being! | ||
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+ | --doorknob199 | ||
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+ | ====IVLAAMSG62 installed==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:11 pm | ||
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+ | Weather station IVLAAMSG62 finally installed and operational on the roof of the Vooruit, Gent. We now have a continuous readout of temperature, | ||
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+ | As a technological sensory organ, the weather station can provide us with a simulation and window into plant perception, as it records the features of the environment essential for a plant' | ||
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+ | ====Cargo cult interior design challenge II==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:54 pm | ||
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+ | Herbert' | ||
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+ | Fraser has officially declared the Patabotanical Cargo Cult Interior Design Challenge. We are hoping to trick people into plant communication through a meticulous simulation of plant-machine entanglement that is usual in our reality, but must be reached through special contrivances in this one. We will charm visitors into Viriditas through contagious and homeopathic interior design. Everyone' | ||
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+ | --armormin | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:08 pm | ||
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+ | Some of the results have been spellbinding, | ||
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+ | Mood: Hilarious | ||
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+ | --mango | ||
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+ | ====Nonsense==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:50 pm | ||
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+ | The art of being most relevant in the most irrelevant circumstances. | ||
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+ | --mango | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:52 pm | ||
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+ | Frazer, please read your PMs. I'd like to keep this board on topic if possible. | ||
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+ | --tritar | ||
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+ | ====The fallacy of misplaced intangibility==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:35 pm | ||
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+ | It is not the place here to present a rigorous critique of the prevailing viewpoints we have frequently encountered while engaged in our researches in this dimension. But there are certain apparent biases in humans that are so baffling we cannot let them pass without at least some further if desultory remarks. | ||
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+ | In short, it seems that the fallacy of misplaced intangibility is at the root of a good deal of misunderstanding between humans, plants, and us. Theorists and philosophers here have come up with the notion of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness to describe what they variously call fetishism, animism, homeopathic magic, or even by extension such practices as cargo cults. | ||
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+ | This position is articulated in a most outspoken way by the author of an otherwise remarkable tome of some antiquity on this world, whose position statement on magic can be found in full here http:// | ||
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+ | The fallacy is, however, not one of misplaced concreteness, | ||
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+ | I was going to say more but it will just turn into a rant from here on, so enough said. | ||
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+ | --armormin | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:40 pm | ||
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+ | sincerely said, i really found your remarkable books by accident when surfing internet yesterday. i had forever want tell, you really do raise so many of good point. exactly! success, it would goes wished to you in your future career of what kind i wait to see with big anticipate. keep on that cruising way! i respect hear anything you tell for very long time. | ||
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+ | --doorknob199 | ||
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+ | ====Cargo cult interior design challenge I - biotech equipment==== | ||
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+ | Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:46 pm | ||
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+ | Trismegisto has returned with a whole van-load of peculiar apparatuses acquired from a recent auction held by a biotech company after it went bankrupt. He's added these to his growing hoard of scientific instruments - many of them found mouldering away in the basement of a local university. (His research assistant had to be bribed, because he claimed that in order to take these apparatuses he would need to orchestrate a midnight raid on the university, effectively breaking and entering. Apparently it seems we can't simply ask the university directly to lend us equipment that they don't even use.) We can only find space for these often enormous and clumsy machines in the labyrinth of disused rooms connecting to the Snoepwinkel through the one window opening onto the loft of plant meditation. This is also a cause for some concern, as these rooms are leaky and dilapidated, | ||
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+ | He has set up an entire rig of interlinked machines and is constantly making forays deeper into the abandoned rooms of the building where our lab is, assembling and disassembling devices, cords, tubes and pipes. Sometimes he can even be seen furtively crawling out of a manhole across the street; no doubt he's discovered underground catacombs in which he has expanded operations. However, nothing seems to be working properly. He is often heard muttering that the machines are " | ||
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+ | This extreme disillusion has fed tensions between Trismegisto and his research assistants. Not a day passes without heated arguments; these arguments often lead to fits of screaming and the assistant being quite literally ejected from the Snoepwinkel in tears of frustration. And yet today one such argument took a dramatically different turn. The assistant was trying to explain for the hundredth time that just because a machine looks somewhat like one that can be found in our dimension doesn' | ||
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+ | --eleq | ||
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