<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>On 2013-11-13 10:11, Kelly Anderson
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span>
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</div></div></blockquote><div>But it's not incomprehensible... Just slightly out of
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Kind of. I just arrived in Plzen in the Czech republic (world
capital of the letter 'Z'!) I have been here before, I know where it
is on the map, but I do not *feel* like I am 1,051 kilometres away
from home. I *feel* that walking to the university from where I am
now is a long walk. But I cannot *feel* how much longer walking to
Oxford would be compared to walking to Prague, despite a sizeable
difference. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can't argue with how you feel, as they are your feelings. Just out of curiosity though, what's the longest distance you have walked Anders?</div><div> </div>
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<div>I can't say that I have ANY feeling for Great Britain,
despite having flown over it once or twice.</div>
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Exactly! The American Midwest is an abstraction or TV setting for
me, despite having seen it ("flyover country") from the airplane
window many times. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And I have driven across America many times. While I don't have the same feel for anyone who has done the two to three month walk, I do have some kind of feel for it.</div>
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