X-Message-Number: 5479 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 10:03:23 -0800 From: John K Clark <> Subject: The incomprehensible is incompressible -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In looking over one of my old posts, #5443, I found a line that made me blush. I was talking about the question "What is the meaning of meaning?" and I said that unless I already knew the answer: "The very question would be incompressible to me" Incompressible? How on earth did I get that? My mind was thinking "incomprehensible" but my fingers were typing "incompressible" and the two have nothing to do with each other... Or do they? ... Wait a minute, if it's incomprehensible then there is no pattern, it's random, and it's well known in computer science that a random sequence is... incompressible. That's the ticket! It wasn't an error on my part at all, oh no, it was all part of my grand master plan. And if you believe that, I have some swamp land I'd like to sell you, I think it has oil on it. John K Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.i iQCzAgUBMOA00H03wfSpid95AQEB1ATvRW6a90AtYNThfWLBfJ9aYlOv1TECeBF2 Nh53TxSxlYuGvqJE15YlAvNJS1KlM64NhlF2Y1a0DV6sg6wQRhn5+PFrW8UUitzJ zS9uv7SclFQhfq1vqiKg3tYRTOi8gI+HtEgEuNMMszsd7zi9yJF3PrLwfg/YHlF2 eZyVR4dqtIOuhku/XSzBgAMczrKRuzQD8KJoZeMcK+3LCPP3FgU= =SNEJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5479