-Prof. Tim
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From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: virus: Shamanic Magician
>>Could you say a bit more about small universes?
>
>Once taken out of their milieu, and into this large and universally
>studied, comprehended, uncomprehended, perceived and shared universe, no
>shaman's magic is measurable.
>It is also rarely useful, although I do not deny all utility.
>
>What there is transferable from shamanic magic into this universe ruled
>by the Random Quanta is not magic, nor is it separate from this universe.
>Claims of 'otherness' is always a sham.
>
>But and then again, we all live in small universes. I like to think (to
>claim) that I see both the one I am in, and the one that is, but I don't
>know. As a skeptic, I need to see that every fact is backed up by the
>whole universe, not just in an isolated subset of a tribe of homo sapiens
>sapiens.
>
>But I also wonder if we can live in anything but small universes.
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