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Wednesday, 13 June 2012

When Aliens Read the Socratic Dialogues

Posted on 06:02 by Unknown
Apparently they get a different satisfaction from reading Plato:


Of course, that might either mean that they are intellectually superior to us, or that maybe they're semi-autistic engineers. Oh snap! :)

To be fair, at least two humans, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, got the joke, except Nietzsche didn't find it very funny...

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