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- 01.04.04 - 19:42:24

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'I suspect that as we move further and further into the field of digital or artificial life we will find more and more unexpected properties begin to emerge out of what we see happening and that this is a precise parallel to the entities we create around ourselves to inform and shape our lives and enable us to work and live together.
Therefore, I would argue that though there isn't an actual god there is an artificial god and we should probably bear that in mind.'
(Douglas Adams 1998)

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, neil jenkins

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so
mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some
thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the
non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse
to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without
faith I am nothing.' 'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead
giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you
exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh
dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a
puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on
to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra
crossing."

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1978
a web version of the guide : http://www.vogon.com/guide/

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 06:42 PM, soy.de wrote:

> o]-[- The Fourth Age of Sand ]-8[o
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> WORD << VISUAL>> SOUND :
> 'I suspect that as we move further and further into the field of
> digital or artificial life we will find more and more unexpected
> properties begin to emerge out of what we see happening and that this
> is a precise parallel to the entities we create around ourselves to
> inform and shape our lives and enable us to work and live together.
> Therefore, I would argue that though there isn't an actual god there
> is an artificial god and we should probably bear that in mind.'
> (Douglas Adams 1998)
>
> URL:
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, sim

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- 05.04.04 - 01:28:04

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well ok , neil beat me :)!

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, sim

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- 05.04.04 - 01:58:50

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OK, let

, sim

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- 05.04.04 - 01:59:51

WORD << VISUAL>> SOUND :
What is the 'Fourth Age of Sand'?

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