> If only the Earth were a perfectly featureless sphere how simple things would be.
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Blah, boring. I remember a girl describing how nice everything would be if everything was symmetrical and deterministic, from language, to language, to numbers, to nature, to math... In the end she went on describing heaven as such a place... Man, for the first time in my life I thought that if heaven is like this, I'd like never go there :-)
When Homer described Helen, he wrote "The most beautiful woman in the world", he left the details to the reader. Now imagine if he had added the slightest hint of determinism...
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Blah, boring. I remember a girl describing how nice everything would be if everything was symmetrical and deterministic, from language, to language, to numbers, to nature, to math... In the end she went on describing heaven as such a place... Man, for the first time in my life I thought that if heaven is like this, I'd like never go there :-)
When Homer described Helen, he wrote "The most beautiful woman in the world", he left the details to the reader. Now imagine if he had added the slightest hint of determinism...
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