Fred on Hawking
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:49 pm
"Recently I found the noted astrophysicist Stephen Hawking quoted, perhaps correctly, as saying that humanity may be on the verge of understanding everything whatever."
"If one may differ with a cosmogonist, I suggest that we understand almost nothing."
"...I note that the brightest of a large population of hamsters is, after all, a hamster."
"I have tried to imagine how an infant wasp, crawling unschooled from where its mother left it as an egg, knows how to find a tarantula, where to sting it, and how to bury it. One would think the world would be a confusing place to such a newborn with no experience of it and only the outline of a nervous system. Yet they do it unerringly. More is going on here than I think we know.
My idiot dog Deacon showed up and set about whuffling in the black undergrowth. He was an agreeable if foolish brute, and appeared to be the product of illicit coupling between a German shepherd and a boxcar. Why he whuffled, I don't know. I didn't need to know. He did what is proper to his place in things and I, what is proper to mine. He sniffed, and I supervised sunsets. It suited us."
Perhaps Fred Reed understands The Great Pooh Bear, the world just is.
"If one may differ with a cosmogonist, I suggest that we understand almost nothing."
"...I note that the brightest of a large population of hamsters is, after all, a hamster."
"I have tried to imagine how an infant wasp, crawling unschooled from where its mother left it as an egg, knows how to find a tarantula, where to sting it, and how to bury it. One would think the world would be a confusing place to such a newborn with no experience of it and only the outline of a nervous system. Yet they do it unerringly. More is going on here than I think we know.
My idiot dog Deacon showed up and set about whuffling in the black undergrowth. He was an agreeable if foolish brute, and appeared to be the product of illicit coupling between a German shepherd and a boxcar. Why he whuffled, I don't know. I didn't need to know. He did what is proper to his place in things and I, what is proper to mine. He sniffed, and I supervised sunsets. It suited us."
Perhaps Fred Reed understands The Great Pooh Bear, the world just is.