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Subject: intelligence and the initial conditions of the universe (BANG!!!)
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Date: 5 Aug 89 21:28:20 GMT
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Intelligence and its instantiation as reasoning must be conditioned by
the initial conditions of the universe; if the universe had started as
a continuous distribution of matter, there would have been no discrete
sets (?), hence no numbers. if the initial conditions had decreed a different
set of discrete elementary particles, there would have been a different
number theory, different primes, or perhaps no primes at all (?)