I thought the Quantum Slut was an interesting concentration of
strangenesses. I had dinner with a mathematician/physicist friend the other
evening who's been involved in the mathematics of quantum physics his whole
career and he tells me there is no matter, it's all information. He says the
map *is* the territory. Studied with Wheeler, who worked with Bohr. Godel
was Wheeler's next door neighbour at Princeton. Very odd bunch.
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HELEN: So we have new problem sub cultures evolving. . . but -
RUNEBERG: We're not talking about a few gangstas low-riding the 'hood
shooting off their big mouths with loops of dirty rhymes that kids in
Tuscaloosa are going to sing on the school bus, that's the kind of stuff
Dworkin worries about. No - we're gonna be talking in post-human terms. . .
the high frontier. . .
(SFX: A dim cavernous murmuring in the ether. . .)
HELEN: You can mystify Roger Sullington, but don't try and fool me. . .
RUNEBERG: We're talking the future of consciousness here.
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Nice touch!
ja
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