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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ummmmmmm  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Not at all. The Big Bang has thrown up human consciousness powerful   
   > enough to understand the big bang. It also periodically throws up humans   
   > who have the special knack of recalibrating human consciousness.   
   > Not just a reboot. Reformat & restore to factory defaults.   
   > Get rid of the accumulated crud.   
   >   
   > While they're alive, this is what they do. After they're dead people   
   > collect what they remember of their 'sayings', codify them and call them   
   > "The Words of God", and start up a new religion which slowly congeals   
   > into more accumulated crud.   
      
   The trick here is not the reformat-and-restore-to-factory-defaults.   
   The old factory-defaults obviously did not work well if the system needs   
   restored.   
   The trick is changing the factory-defaults between the reformat and the   
   restore.   
   There's a lot that can be done with any system just by changing a few basic   
   constants, which one might refer to as concepts.   
   A guy might call it "modification through semantic redefinition".   
   I wonder if google knows anything about that.   
   I wonder who writes the wikipedia articles.   
   Sometimes history just isn't what it used to be.   
   For want of "is".   
      
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