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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Mathematical ideas aren't "discovered." just about any sequence you can think of has already been implemented by a plant or animal or some :If you met an alien species, they'd be familiar with all our mathematics, the only difference being the symbols. :Other natural process. :So, it's better to be a poet if you want to be immortal :How do we know there aren't universal principles :There too? Rhythm, symmetry, order :Not really. :It's not like stories have no basis in physics. If beings can turn back time or reverse entropy, who cares if romeo killed himself or willy loman wasted his life? :It seems likely that aliens will understand what it means to hope for something and then not get it. If so, why wouldn't they have tragedy? Why wouldn't they have comedy? :Okay, so if you want to make some thing immortal, it needs to be maximally random. :That won't work either/if there's such a thing as maximal randomness, the aliens will know about it too because randomness is useful! :Then the only hope of making :Do that and you will echo through eternity. :Something immortal and special :Is to make crap. Make something nobody would make because there's no beautiful reason for it to exist! :I've never been more proud of my species. :We are as gods! :Caption: smbc-comics.com
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