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Hamlet’s phrase: “[[There’s the rub|The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune]]” has less physical energy content — at the limit, less total ''information'' content — than the four paragraphs that precede it. | Hamlet’s phrase: “[[There’s the rub|The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune]]” has less physical energy content — at the limit, less total ''information'' content — than the four paragraphs that precede it. | ||
But it doesn’t, does it? Those seven words are far richer, more meaningful, and culturally significant than the entire output of this wiki: at last count, {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles containing tens of thousands of lines of pompous, deluded text.<ref>Oh but [[paradox]]: This wiki contains — ''twice'' — the expression “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” — ''three times!'' — | But it doesn’t, does it? Those seven words are far richer, more meaningful, and culturally significant than the entire output of this wiki: at last count, {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles containing tens of thousands of lines of pompous, deluded text.<ref>Oh but [[paradox]]: This wiki contains — ''twice'' — the expression “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” — ''three times now!'' — so does that mean it has falsified itself? We think not. Because — ''context''.</ref> | ||
Any research program that stops there — as materialism does — has missed a pretty big part of the picture. | Any research program that stops there — as materialism does — has missed a pretty big part of the picture. | ||