Jean Descole (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scientificflair) wrote2012-12-08 12:39 pm
scientificflair) wrote2012-12-08 12:39 pm
007. [Audio/also a couple of other things.]
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[More violin music over Descole's feed today; it's an incredibly simplified version of Song of the Stars - although really, someone ought to teach him the Jeopardy theme, considering how much that instrument gets whipped out when he's feeling like bombarding the network with both the fact that he can't hold all his feels, and he has something best described as "pseudo-philosophical what" to say.
As before, he plays for a while before the melody fades and shifts into something long and drawn-out, idling while he speaks; the sound is quieter, as though the violin has been directed away from the 'Gear a bit.]
There's a famous thought experiment that poses the following:
Imagine yourself standing outside a large field; you see, in the distance, what looks to you to be a specific animal - for simplicity's sake, let's say a bull. You then form the belief that there is a bull in the field. And you are correct - there is, indeed, a bull in the field. However, the bull is lying down behind a hill, just outside your line of vision; you can't see it from your current position. Moreover, what you actually saw was a tarp that had gotten tangled over a bush; from outside the field, it looked like a bull, but actually wasn't anything of the sort.
Again, you were factually correct, and you had a well-justified true belief that there was a bull in the field. However, can you really say you knew?
[He pauses for a moment, continuing to play quietly while he thinks.]
And if you were to find yourself in such a situation - where a belief is true and well-justified, and yet the proof of it being true isn't where you believe it is - would you say that your belief was any less valid?
[And with that, the feed cuts off.]
[PRIVATE TEXT TO FLUTTERSHY]
Miss Fluttershy,
I have something to ask you, should it not be an inconvenience.
[PRIVATE TEXT TO COLONEL ARCHER]
There's something that we need to discuss.
Now.
[More violin music over Descole's feed today; it's an incredibly simplified version of Song of the Stars - although really, someone ought to teach him the Jeopardy theme, considering how much that instrument gets whipped out when he's feeling like bombarding the network with both the fact that he can't hold all his feels, and he has something best described as "pseudo-philosophical what" to say.
As before, he plays for a while before the melody fades and shifts into something long and drawn-out, idling while he speaks; the sound is quieter, as though the violin has been directed away from the 'Gear a bit.]
There's a famous thought experiment that poses the following:
Imagine yourself standing outside a large field; you see, in the distance, what looks to you to be a specific animal - for simplicity's sake, let's say a bull. You then form the belief that there is a bull in the field. And you are correct - there is, indeed, a bull in the field. However, the bull is lying down behind a hill, just outside your line of vision; you can't see it from your current position. Moreover, what you actually saw was a tarp that had gotten tangled over a bush; from outside the field, it looked like a bull, but actually wasn't anything of the sort.
Again, you were factually correct, and you had a well-justified true belief that there was a bull in the field. However, can you really say you knew?
[He pauses for a moment, continuing to play quietly while he thinks.]
And if you were to find yourself in such a situation - where a belief is true and well-justified, and yet the proof of it being true isn't where you believe it is - would you say that your belief was any less valid?
[And with that, the feed cuts off.]
[PRIVATE TEXT TO FLUTTERSHY]
Miss Fluttershy,
I have something to ask you, should it not be an inconvenience.
[PRIVATE TEXT TO COLONEL ARCHER]
There's something that we need to discuss.
Now.
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I wouldn't say we're...good friends, exactly - it's more that we're becoming closer in some ways after having a rather negative history with one another. As such, it's positive, but horribly awkward, if that makes any sense; I want to ensure that it has no reason to become more awkward.
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Maybe with your music!!! You can give her a special performance, a solo concert, only for her!!!
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i mean he approves but dear lord]
...that's actually a rather good idea, now that you mention it. She's said something about wanting something like that before, I believe.
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That's wonderful!!! I'm sure she will like it a lot!!! You are very good with music!!!
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I appreciate it. It's one of the things I've studied for quite some time now.
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But that does remind me.
Do you want a gift for this Christmas holiday? We don't have it back home, but from what I understand, I think I'm allowed to give you something.
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...oh.]
...you don't have to do that, but you're certainly allowed.
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[you will be getting one Soothe Bell, to help strengthen friendships with Pokemon! since you had trouble in that department and all.]
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admittedly he was going to get you something anyway
but still oh my god]
Well. Consider it appreciated, then.
[................he sucks at this sort of thing, hang on]
I'm rather fond of you as well, you know. You've been very kind.
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no idea
and the impending canon update is just going to make it worse]
Most wouldn't agree with you on that front, though there are a few who are worth the effort, I suppose.
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Don't worry about it. I've never been one for socializing back home, I suppose.
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It's not easy. Sometimes it's difficult to talk to others, and to understand them.
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[...what does he do with this]
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[welcome to a life where your friend is a pony.]