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beambot on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1996)...

To be fair: if you measure the cosmological time from the first human step to man walking on the moon, it was barely the blink of an eye...

coldtea on March 30, 2021 [–]

Sure. But why should we compare it to the cosmological time, and not to e.g. civilization time? Or homo sapiens time? In which case it took 100s to 1000s of lifetimes between the step and the moon...

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