Re: mystery and emergence

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/mystery-and-emergence-tp3599553p3600828.html

Victoria Hughes wrote:
> Could we get all these on a t-shirt and then sell it as a fundraiser?
> or just distribute them amongst ourselves...?
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> Although I believe Clarke said 'technology' not 'science'.
I believe you are correct... I think my (mis)quote is a common misquote,
however.

For the T-shirt, I prefer Gehm's Corrolary... if one were to have to
pick a single quote.

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> On Sep 7, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
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>> All this talk of emergence and mystery reminds me wonderfully of
>> Clarke's third law:
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>>   "Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic"
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>> and the many wonderful riffs on that including:
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>>   "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"
>>   - Niven & then Pratchett
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>>  "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
>>   - Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Law
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>> or my mostest favorites:
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>>   "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!"
>>   - Agatha Heterodyne
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>>   "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a
>> yo-yo,"
>>   - Neal Stephenson (in the voice of Enoch Root)
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>> So perhaps:
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>>   "Any sufficiently subtle emergence is indistinguishable from mystery".
>>   or
>>   "Any sufficiently analyzed emergence is indistinguishable from ..."
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>> - Steve
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