Understanding

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understanding

Title text: Anyway, goodbye. I have to let another sentient species know how pointless it all is.

Votey

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So, what is the universe made of?

Just break it down for me.

Ah. Yeah. This is awkward.

I cant.

Would it really surprise you to know that knowledge is circumscribed by the history of the species?

Humans can only

Conceptualize about

Six and a half things at a single time, and then only in great

Abstraction.

Approximately 97% of available understanding-

The greatest human thinkers get to 8 or 9 and most of those people never breed

In this universe

Requires you to

Hold seven mental

Items at once.

Energoids like me can conceive of up to 10,000 things in their fullness at a single moment.

Riiiight.

This allows us to understand over a3% of reality.

I hear it's shaped like a big donut and were on the crust.

Please stop. This is embarrassing:

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Bahfest london shall commence within a fortnight

Two nights of fake science at imperial college!

To

Jan 2a: Evolution jan 23:Big science

Quy

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More embarrassing than you can possibly comprehend

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