On 18 Apr 2011, at 18:59, meekerdb wrote:
On 4/18/2011 9:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Orwell get the point; freedom (the attractor of free will) *is*
2+2=4. And this can be real relief ... if you have the chance to
be able to say that 2+2=4 in your neighborhood. I am living in a
society who has always defended my right to say that 2+2=4, until I
said so. Oh no! I was not supposed to say it.
"2+2=4" is the liberating power making it possible for birds and
humans to fly. "2+2=5" or any BS of that style is what makes it
possible to be tortured by your pairs, as Orwell illustrated quite
well.
2+2=5 for very large values of 2. :-)
--- Lawrence Krauss, on how physicists use mathematics
LOL :)
B.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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