16 February 2008 - transcendental

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By the Numbers

If insights are like numbers, then a transcendental insight is necessarily irrational. In fact, nearly all ideas are transcendental; the reason we aren’t all gurus is that they are also nearly all uncomputable, so that we can’t find them.

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