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 Douglas Adam’s famous passage from {{hhgg}} which in these pages exists mainly to lampoon modernists, determinists and those who labour under the illusion that technology can fix deeply-seated human problems.
-Also, those who believe the whole path of the universe can be derived from its initial state, and that [[Conway ’s Life Game]] somehow illustrates this, and the notion — which is basically the same idea, only run in reverse — that it logically follows [[simulation hypothesis|we are living in a computer simulation]].
+Also, those who believe the whole path of the universe can be derived from its initial state, and that [[Conway’s Life Game]] somehow illustrates this, and the notion — which is basically the same idea, only run in reverse — that it logically follows [[simulation hypothesis|we are living in a computer simulation]].
+Three ideas have a similar cultural pedigree, and resting state plausibility, as the [[argument from design]] and [[cogito ergo sum]]. That is, very little.
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 *[[High modernism]]