J. H. Prynne

[luka]

FACTS

There are two types of people in this world, people who like facts and people who can live without them. Are you a fact man? Speaking for myself I can't stand them but this troubles me occasionally and I buy a book of facts, for self improvement reasons, which I never read. When I see a whole...

www.dissensus.com

 

[woops]

facts are for swots

Neither Luke's insults nor his intellect has transcended the primary school level

 

[luka]

i taught you to read you cheeky sod!

 

[Benny Bunter]

Just read Plant Time Manifold Transcripts, which I initially thought was going to be another note on metal style headfuck, but it turns out it's one massive pisstake, sending up both himself and scientific research in general. Maybe could have been shorter to achieve what he wanted to do, but worth a read at least once.

 

[luka]

A lot of people think he's very serious about the propositions made there actually. The time moving in both directions and so on

 

[luka]

There's a Professor Lichen on the forum I noticed but he hasn't posted yet

 

[Benny Bunter]

A lot of people think he's very serious about the propositions made there actually. The time moving in both directions and so on

Really? I suppose for the first paragraph you read it thinking that he might be being serious, but from there it gets increasingly absurd and you realise it's obviously a parody of the scientific academic world. Maybe he did conceal some serious ideas in there, no idea what they would be though.

 

[version]

Really? I suppose for the first paragraph you read it thinking that he might be being serious, but from there it gets increasingly absurd and you realise it's obviously a parody of the scientific academic world. Maybe he did conceal some serious ideas in there, no idea what they would be though.

Someone did a fifty page commentary on it that Luke's shared here before,

RELATIVISTIC PHYTOSOPHY: TOWARDS A COMMENTARY ON “THE PLANT TIME MANIFOLD TRANSCRIPTS”

 

[Benny Bunter]

It made me wonder if he wrote it for a laugh after being accused of pseudo science himself by critics for stuff like a note on metal (which seems very serious to me). Pure conjecture on my part though. I'll have a skim through that commentary.

 

[version]

That always seems to happen when anyone takes a poetic approach to anything to do with STEM. It's Dawkins and Sokal moaning about French theorists "misusing" scientific terminology again.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Someone did a fifty page commentary on it that Luke's shared here before,

RELATIVISTIC PHYTOSOPHY: TOWARDS A COMMENTARY ON “THE PLANT TIME MANIFOLD TRANSCRIPTS”

Fucking hell there's no way I can read that. Have you two read it?

I think I'll just stick to my original idea that it's a massive pisstake and leave it at that.

 

[version]

I haven't, but now I feel like I have to.

😂

 

[Benny Bunter]

There's no way Luka's read it either

 

[version]

Yeah, he definitely hasn't. He probably did what I did and looked at the first page then bookmarked it.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I could just about believe that Prynne slipped a few serious ideas in there in amongst the parody, but the guy who wrote that article is probably mentally ill.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Perhaps 'Science Sam' could shed some light on the matter?

 

[luka]

Fucking hell there's no way I can read that. Have you two read it?

depends what you mean by 'read it.'

 

[luka]

i've almost finished reading see by so, which is 8, very small pages long. about 20 words per page. i'm about 3 lines from the end but i need a rest.

 

[woops]

I think there are serious ideas & jokes & serious ideas raised to the point of parody

 

[Benny Bunter]

@Professor_Lichen to thread