March 28, 2007

• Magical Thinking:

  Plato, God, Stories

  Peter Woit's latest weblog entry links to a discussion of Plato's cave
  and the modular group, which in turn suggests a second look at an entry linked to, indirectly, at the end of Saturday's Log24 entry: Natasha's Dance.  This leads to the following:

  "To me, to worship God means to recognize that mind and intelligence are
  woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether
  surpasses our comprehension."

  -- Freeman Dyson, "Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight," The New York Review of Books, issue dated five years ago today-- March 28, 2002.

  If Dyson's "recognition" is correct, why should mind and intelligence not be woven into the fabric of the Pennsylvania Lottery?

  

  The practiced reader of Log24 will have little
  difficulty in constructing a story based on these numbers.  Briefly, the story is... 2/26 and 8/26.  The
  way the story was written may "surpass our comprehension," but the story itself need not.

  Those more interested in the writing than the story may consult Edward Rothstein's piece in the March 26 New York Times,
  "Texts That Run Rings Around Everyday Linear Logic."  There they will find a brief discussion of,
  appropriately, the Bible's Book of Numbers.

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