h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You could always try not breathing for a while to see whether your mind clears.
It can take up to three days for your body to completely rid itself of toxins though, so you may want to wait for the next long weekend.

But don't hold your breath all that time, or you're the first one we can be sure of not to be real anymore.

But surely taking the occasional breath would invalidate the experiment?
Unless, of course, you can devise some way of excluding oxygen from your environment....

But is it already too late!? Could the first few breaths you take in life enough to start your bizarre delusions that cause you to believe people like George Bush can get into power... Or are you infected at birth by the oxygen passing along your mother's umbilical chord?

Maybe life is a toxin. Certainly seems to get some people high. Oh, and it's usually fatal as well.

Hmmm, that would explain a lot about me....! Infected oxygen, indeed.

Oxygen causes cancer - everyone knows that.

True... And people die at different ages, so we all must have different tolerances to it...

Ebert would just like to say, 'dieing can be harmfull to your health'

Q. isn't Ebert great?

A. he would be if he existed.

You know having cancer is healtier than being a doctor?

50% of cancer patients die, but all of the docters...

Demon Drawer said:

"I'm just a series of hyper lucky monkeys who write coherent articles"

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Otto

I'm a does that mean if I die I won't exist or will I just remain a figment of my imagination?

The

That's a whole new line of thought.
Can a dead person be a figment of his own imagination?

Well actually, I don't exist as I have always perceived myself to be, but have just found out that I am really a half eaten and custard waiting patiently in the fridge

> "No computer has ever come up with the sort of insights that a three-year-old child can produce."

In general, while 3yos do come up with some statements that appear very insightful, they also come up with an awful lot of dross. We remember the clever stuff, and forget the dross. If you do a similar filtering process on (eg) Eliza, then it can certainly produce comparable 'insights', if you are patient enough.

I'd say that computers can be as intelligent as a 3yo - but obviously intelligent in a different way. A computer would have difficulty recognising its 'mother', but a 3yo is unlikely to beat the world chess champion. Expecting computer intelligence to be like human intelligence is like expecting dolphins to fill in tax returns.

That remark is cetacist.

I must be real, why else would I amgine words I don't know the meaning of?!

..imagine...

dolphinist?