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1 + 1 = 3
#1537303 - 05/10/03 04:03 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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'A man brings together two facets of reality and by discovering a likeness between them, suddenly makes them one' - Jacob Bronowski (Scientist)
'...any mental occurence simultaneously associated with two habitually incombatible contexts.' - Arthur Koestler (Writer)
'...that moment of insight becomes the creative act as a joining of two previously incompatible ideas.' - Lyall Watson (Biologist)
'...the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.' - Comte de Lautreamont (Surrealist)
'I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.' - Bruce Mau (Designer)
'...to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them...' - William Plomer (Writer)
'...perceiving analogies and other relations between apparently incongruous ideas or forming unexpected, striking or ludicrous combinations of them.' - Rem Koolhaas (Architect)
'...invention or discovery takes place by combining ideas.' - Jacques Hadamard (Mathematician)
'The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.' - Heraclitus (Philosopher)
'The more distant and distinct the relationship between the two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.' - Pierre Reverdy (Poet)
'...where the imaginative and the functional fuse and finally become indistinguishable.' - Milton Glaser (Designer)
'...apparently unrelated things become interesting when we start fitting them together...' - John Kouwenhoven (Mathematician)
'Only the spirit has the power of unanimously embracing contradictory aspects and fusing them into one.' - Amedee Ozenfant (Artist)
'New discoveries in science and mathematics often consist of a synthesis between theories or concepts which have hitherto been regarded as unconnected.' - Anthony Storr (Psychiatrist)
'You can take two substances, put them together, and produce something powerfully different (table salt), sometimes even explosive (nitroglycerine).' - Diane Ackerman (Writer)
'...creativity seems to be something which links things together ...within a new whole, which didn't exist before.' - Rupert Sheldrake (Biochemist)
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1 + 1 = 3?
You're dumb.
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1537368 - 05/10/03 04:35 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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1 + 1 = 3? You're dumb.
HAHAHA omg, i was reading all his quotes and i started getting into a really serious philosophical mood and then i read your reply and it shattered it and i started cracking up in RL
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: DailyPot]
#1537390 - 05/10/03 04:47 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be?
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1537411 - 05/10/03 04:55 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's not a very original concept. The first time I ever was introduced to it was when reading the George Orwell classic 1984 : "2+2=5"
It was just showing that reality is really illusion. What is '1'? Can you define it for me without objectification, without saying one apple, or one hat or some other object. So now that you can't really define 'one', 'two' or 'three' or any number for that matter......philosphically, how is 1+1=3 any more absurd than 1+1=2? Of course, objectively this would seem stupid......
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: 3MJ3]
#1537419 - 05/10/03 05:00 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Talking about creativity though. A leap across a chasm not bridgeable by reason.
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Heh heh.... I've always had this little joke I used to tell my friends some time ago....
What do you get when you put two and two together?
Twenty-two.
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no; 1 + 1 + 1 = 3!
<- got to be good-looking 'cause he so hard to see.
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Talking about creativity though. A leap across a chasm not bridgeable by reason.
So then reason does have it's limits.....but where then does creativity come from if not from the cognitive faculty of the individual? - the spirit, or more appropriately, the 'immaterial Self'?
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Xibalba]
#1537540 - 05/10/03 06:01 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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<- got to be good-looking 'cause he so hard to see.
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Interesting quotes. I assume all of them are post-Hegel.
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1537964 - 05/10/03 09:30 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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1 + 1 = 3?
You're dumb.
Not if you apply this to nuclear physics and breeder reactors... though in that case I believe it is 2+2=5.
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Seuss]
#1538134 - 05/10/03 10:40 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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1 + 1 = 11
-------------------- What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be?
Edited by Murex (05/10/03 10:41 PM)
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1538215 - 05/10/03 11:28 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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1 + 1 = 11
Hehe... that reminds me of when I was in college at an ACM programming contest. Our advisor asked us what hotel room we were in. Without thinking, my friend tells him room 5. The next day he finds meets up with us after breakfast all upset because there is no room 5. We take him back to the room and show him the door, proudly displaying its room number "101".... he never specified a base. (101 binary = 5 decimal)
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Seuss]
#1538331 - 05/11/03 12:48 AM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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i remember me and my buddy both tripping on shrooms, i told him that 1+1=3, because i could coompletely understand it and believe it was the answer, the same way he believed it = 2. i told him mathematics did not hold any weight in the reality i was in and i was right. this was the first time i had a distinct feeling of alternate realities that are just as "real" as the one we live in.
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: ]
#1539439 - 05/11/03 04:41 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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How can 1 + 1 = 3?
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1539480 - 05/11/03 05:05 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think the implication is basically a "strength in numbers" kind of thing, where the collaborative efforts of a few people may be way more effective than the separate efforts of a few people combined afterwards.
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Re: 1 + 1 = 3 [Re: Murex]
#1539490 - 05/11/03 05:09 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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i can't prove that in this reality... come to pennsylvania, bring 10 grams of shrooms, we'll trip, have a good time, and i'll prove it then. =)
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1 + 1 = 3
An example of this
A man (1) and his wife (1) have sex. Two months later she finds shes pregnant with twins.
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1 + 1 = 3
"An example of this
A man (1) and his wife (1) have sex. Two months later she finds shes pregnant with twins. " ------------------
Your example is not 1 + 1 = 3.... your example is:
{SEX}(1 + 1) = [1 + {1+(1+1)}]{TWO MONTHS LATER} = 4
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