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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. | 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 Game of Life]] 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. | |||
{{Sa}} | {{Sa}} | ||
*[[High modernism]] | *[[High modernism]] | ||
*[[Data modernism]] | *[[Data modernism]] | ||
*[[Determinism]] | *[[Determinism]] | ||
*[[Conway’s Game of Life]] | |||
*[[Simulation hypothesis]] | |||