On 05 Dec 2014, at 05:37, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 2:10 AM
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]>
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.
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.
Thanks for that information. We fear or praise what we don't
understand. It is a reasonable attitude, except when exploited by
unscrupulous manipulators, like with most institutionalized religion.
Bruno
-Chris
Bruno
John K Clark
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