boomerang
Paranormal Adept
I love the musings of mystical science writer Clifford Pickover. A quote from "The Loom of God" :
"We can hardly imagine a chimpanzee understanding the significance of prime numbers, yet the chimpanzee's genetic makeup differs from ours by only a few percentage points. Additional alterations of our brains would admit a variety of profound concepts to which we are now totally closed. What mathematics is lurking out there which we can never understand?"
I must keep some version of this reasoning at hand in answer to the assertion that advanced beings would want to land on the White House Lawn.
"We can hardly imagine a chimpanzee understanding the significance of prime numbers, yet the chimpanzee's genetic makeup differs from ours by only a few percentage points. Additional alterations of our brains would admit a variety of profound concepts to which we are now totally closed. What mathematics is lurking out there which we can never understand?"
I must keep some version of this reasoning at hand in answer to the assertion that advanced beings would want to land on the White House Lawn.