You guys are all of it because I can't follow me.I see future brain-in-a-vat developments. Dear Ashton Kutcher,... if we convince the "you guys are all of it" people to cease following you, will you cease to exist?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
You Are My Brain-in-a-Vat
While we're waiting for an answer to the lonely, windswept Linksys question MT linked below, why don't we celebrate this critical technological breakthrough for humankind? Here's how the new Bill Gates sees himself, or doesn't:
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Kutcher 2.0 ceases to exist, in that case, but we are left with Kutcher 1.0, which is the same, just not as interactive or multimedia. It's obvious. Did you do that philosophy degree by dial-up or what?
It must have been the postmodern portion of my training.
But... if he can't follow him, to use Kutcher-speak, and his statement applies more generally (and is it clear that it does not?), perhaps even 1.0 will cease to exist. I think, sir, that you have assumed a premise that is not there.
I guess this is some pitfall of language that I'm somehow walking over oblivious. I don't see it. Or I'm just failing to be tickled--not having been drilled in linguistic analysis, maybe. I'd just say he's being loose with "it," and being backhanded in asserting something with "follow," which incidentally he's using in a Twitter-specific sense. Works for me. I could believe there's some theory of language or grammar, according to which it's bad or wrong, but I thought we were all descriptivists now.
I'm just ribbing you.... and making fun of philosophy at the same time.
I am such an innocent.
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