Quotes April 2017

"That shapes must change dimension to retain form with a different proportion in the same perspective." ---Nathan Coppedge, proposed solution to the Von Neumann Paradox

"String theory is a better foundation for relativity than relativity is for string theory." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Quantum is supposed to mean logic." ---Nathan Coppedge

"I can't help thinking that it is not so generous of you to take on the coat of all humanity if you predict its failure. If you do represent humanity, it could be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and if you don’t you have no real right to make the prediction. As a result, you should just accept that humanity is functional if you are not, or way more functional if you are only a little bit functional. And if you are highly functional, the earlier arguments follow. I do not feel hopeless, because I believe it is those who fail who are motivated, and so, the only reason for despair is success or meaninglessness. But meaning can be created, and success is all we will ever achieve." ---Nathan Coppedge, reply to Zsolt Hermann
"Belief in luciferized (literal) garbage: it was already there, or there's no there there." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Each thing can be it's own standard, and so, too, for coherence."---Nathan Coppedge
"Coherence is inevitable from the concept of the coherent object." ---Nathan Coppedge
"That's appreciable, I guess, assuming it's appreciable" ---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients, (rubric for accepting reality)
"Previously, magical charm was always unlikely." ---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients (the importance of the variable of improbability)

"Think of it this way: science has an eternal project to construct all the FACTS. Philosophy begins with the idea that all facts are expressed by experience, and constructs KNOWLEDGE." ---Nathan Coppedge

"If the meaningless happens by coincidence, then meaning is certainly possible." ---Nathan Coppedge
"Humans think God is the ultimate. Robots probably think it is the beginning." ---Nathan Coppedge
"There is no way to equate a human and a computer, except by turning the mind into little bits, or else determining that all that thinks is like a brain. Probably we'll see a mixture of both by the time life starts to look naturally significant." ---Nathan Coppedge
"I'm listening to this amazing news that came from me." ---Nathan Coppedge
"Maybe history is as delusional as me, if I'm delusional about perpetual motion." ---Nathan Coppedge
"I'm a very understated case doing very overstated things." ---Nathan Coppedge
"Daniel Radcliffe has said some very smart things that didn't seem smart. I've said some really smart things that didn't seem dumb." ---Nathan Coppedge

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