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Jean Descole ([personal profile] scientificflair) wrote2012-12-08 12:39 pm

007. [Audio/also a couple of other things.]

[AUDIO]

[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.
snapandscoot: (i'm not intimidated!!)

[audio]

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-09 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, I've been fine; I was actually going to contact you fairly soon; I've got something to ask in relation to that little invitation of yours.

[[....difficulties with....work....]]

...I hope things haven't been...too hard for you. Especially with....well, you know who I mean.

[[If Archer has been mean to you so help her he's going right into the Lake of Rage!!]]
snapandscoot: (giggle)

[of course~!]

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-09 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if he's being insufferable at least you know things are fairly regular.

[[Have a small giggle, before-]]

Ah, right; I'm going to the Lake of Rage with Mr Kimblee and Isaac for a few days. They wanted it to be a week but Mr Kimblee insisted on bringing Archer, and since I'd rather not spend an entire week fighting down the urge to hurl him in the lake, I was.....well I was wondering if I could come and visit you instead, you know, take you up on that offer.

[[As she speaks, Emmy plays with the cover of her bed, running the material through her fingers and shifting slightly on the mattress.]]
snapandscoot: (smile)

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-09 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well I don't know; I did so enjoy the last one....

[[yep, this is awkward

...but it's

k-kinda nice awkward

like the kind of awkward that comes with butterflies

or something]]


But as long as you allow me to make the tea, I might be able to give you a pass. Just this once.
snapandscoot: (Default)

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-09 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[[Oh, well! She'll just have to laugh in return, then!]]

Since you're being such a gentleman by giving me an escape route, I may be convinced to be your official tea-maker for the entire time I'm there. Shall I bring some lemons?
snapandscoot: (Correct!)

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry; I won't be making that mistake a second time!

[[and yes this is

...this is weirdly pleasant

she is enjoying this]]


Oh, you spoke to Isaac? Isn't he lovely?
snapandscoot: (Um....)

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well....

[[....Descole that's

well it's

...he's really nice okay]]


He does mean well, I promise! He's....just not the sharpest tool in the shed!
snapandscoot: (smile)

[personal profile] snapandscoot 2012-12-10 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, he's the one! I suppose it's a case of opposites attracting, and all that.

[[....look she doesn't comment on it, okay, they seem happy with one another so who cares tbh!!]]

But they've been together for...wow, over six months now, I believe, so they obviously must get along rather well! If I leave early to see you it'll give them some time to be a couple on Christmas, anyway.

[[Archer who]]