"Oooh! he has a spooky name" .... and then there's that word "believe"
Tell you what I did. There is a 12 part interview on YouTube and I sat through it. Then I read the transcript of the interview over on Camelot.
I remember laughing several times while reading it because it's probably some of the most refreshing, insightful, and innovative computer science I'd read of in the 30 years I've been around the damned things. Made me jealous as hell I wasn't involved.
What I didn't see Cliff mention was anything about starting a religion. A closer explanation of what they've labored to produce would be along the lines of a weather report. It's drawn from a whole collection of factors, that are constantly changing. These may not be aware of each other, or even know the nature of their relationships.
Then there's things like, even looking at them also has an effect, and whose looking and how they put them together, as well.
Lemme try a diff tack. Begin with this as a given.
"Everyone knows the truth."
People may hide from it, or hide it from others, or spin it round either for their own benefit, or the comfort of others, but,
"Everyone knows the truth."
Knowing that affects how they interact. How they feel about it does as well. What they've done is the beginnings of a way to "listen" to that, and quantify how it changes. It's not about whether or not you should walk across the street today, or not. Or even whether or not you'll be hit by a truck in the process. It's more like.... whether you should take an umbrella with you, or not. "Clear as mud?"
Brings me around to one of my favorite quotes, of late:
Quote:
"It should be self evident that if there is only oneness, then anything else that appears to exist, must have been made up. Furthermore it must have been made up for appeared to be a very damned good reason.
Thus instead of judging the world and everything in it, perhaps it would be more helpful for you to ask what value you saw in making it up in the first place. It may also be wise to ask yourself what would be a more appropriate response to it now."
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NOTE: Cliff High; If you ever need another completely incompetent, computer literate, assistant, ravenously hungry to learn, PM me, please!