[ExI] Question re Website Software - Dreamweaver

[natasha at natasha.cc]

Each tower has its own dream weavers where the silk is spun.



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On 2014-01-07 18:42, spike wrote:
> What would it look like from inside a weird ivory tower?  Everyone 
> inside would not appear weird or dissociated from reality, for that 
> would be the local reality.  So everyone outside that ivory tower 
> would appear dissociated and weird.  They would be living in a world 
> surrounded by weird people, walking around everywhere.  The 
> ivory-towerers would observe those out there don't even know they are
weird.
>
> Cool, I want to go there.

You should totally visit us in Oxford! We have a fun gang in our ivory
tower.

The problem among the dreaming spires and towers is that it is not just the
people outside that look weird-but-doesn't-know-it. It is all those other
academics too! The ivory tower across the street is full of theologicians,
and a the weird-looking one with the telescope full of astronomers. Both
think *we* are weird. Which is strange when you spend so much time looking
at concepts that might not have any referent or counting stars that have
exploded by now anyway. Only we philosophers are self-aware enough to know
that we are pompous weirdos who can't even see how weird we are! :-)

--
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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