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>        ....                    Your attitude is that of the Ancient 
>Egyptian Priesthood who used knowledge for repressive power over the 
>masses. It is antidemocratic. Half-baked ideas are very important. 
>Let a thousand wacko ideas flourish! Let the collective mind operate. 
>Natural selection of memes will do the trick. Let no stone be unturned. 
>That is the beauty of the internet. It is a vast discarnate 
>error-correcting code for new ideas.
[More Stream-of-Consciousness Deleted]


It has often been said that a monkey, typing keys at random, would eventually
write all the great works of literature.  It would also write all the correct
scientific theories of the Universe (presumably, then, all we sould have to
do would be to identify them as they were produced).

There are two advantages to the monkey...

	1) Nobody has the gall to suggest that he is a 'bold pioineer' doing
	cutting-edge science/philosophy.

	2) The monkey isn't insolent in its ignorance.

G.E.

P.S.  The idea that science should be 'democratic' is one of the most
absurd things I've ever read on this newsgroup.  What are you going to
do -- legislate the laws of nature?
