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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 2:10 AM
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: real A.I.
On 02 Dec 2014, at 19:21, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> Of course, with my definition of unicorn, as *fictitious* objects, belonging
> only to fairy tales, they don't exist, even in arithmetic.
A integer that was larger than 2 but smaller than 3 is 100% fictitious even in
arithmetic,
No doubt about this.
but would a white horse-like creature with a single horn like that of a narwhal
be as fictitious as that, or would it be more like a fictionalized account of a
true story that just happened to have a few composite characters?
I think that horses or other horse-like animals with one corn exist. Here is a
picture, below, and I am sure you can find others looking on the net. I saw
also picture of humans with one, and two corns. I saw also a little girls with
many corns. Bones do that, through some diseases. I think that they might
account better for the unicorns of the fairy tales than rhino, as such disease
are well know by farmers, and probably where considered as being somehow
magical some times ago.
<http://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/RM-Unicorn-1-400x266.jpg>
Cute goat J. Speaking of Unicorns it was trade in Narwhale tusks that kept the
Norse Greenland colonies going… sold off to various European aristocrats (and
alchemists) who treasured them as being the real deal, believing they had
magical properties.
-Chris
Bruno
John K Clark
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