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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote2004-11-13 11:28 pm

Hmm...

...things get interesting. Blue beats Wildcats, Badgers fall to Spartan assault. There may only need to be one. Championship hinges on Ohio, much like the election. If Buckeyes should fold, Blue goes BCS bowling. If challenges went well, will be there to witness personally. Saturday next, a very interesting time.

Coincidences are starting to appear on a more frequent basis. Whether this is a result of courting active chaos, actively courting chaos, or chaos courting activity, I'm not sure. Many of them are favorable, or at least amusing coincidences. Whatever it is, it's a lot of fun.

Toilet Humor.

Followed by Social Justice - God's Plan all along. And someone who thinks that Evangelicals should call themselves Satan-worshippers.

Finally, the Get-To-Know-Ya Meme, chaining through [livejournal.com profile] goji:

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

[identity profile] rimspace.livejournal.com 2004-11-16 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely, in fact if one theory about consciousness is correct (that it is an emergent product of "strange loops" - self-referential patterns that form in complex symbolic processing systems (whether lexical or neurological)) then the formation of such secondary minds is a simple byproduct of the creation of suitably complex mental "instances" of those minds. Effectively the pattern of symbols your mind produces to represent the character can, if it reaches a suitable level of complexity, begin to draw on the resources of your brain, sharing symbols with the rest of your mind, growing itself over time as it is used until it reaches the point where it becomes, effectively, another mind. Secondary to your own, but capable of independent thought.