What was the question again?
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lnrThat's 12 sets asked, and only 2 sets answered, so if anyone else wants to ask me some questions go ahead. I shall answer them in the comments here. I'll only set you some if you've asked me some first.
Update: Thanks, those were fun. I think I've had enough now though :-)
Update: Thanks, those were fun. I think I've had enough now though :-)
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Date: 2003-06-07 01:52 am (UTC)2. You obtain incontrovertible proof that God does not and has never existed. Do you reveal it to the world, and why (or why not)?
3. If you could be granted an eidetic memory in exchange for losing everything you can remember from your birth up to three years ago, would you take the option or turn it down, and why?
4. You have a choice between travelling 10, 100, 1000 or 10000 years into the future to spend one day there before returning back. Which do you choose and why?
5. You catch sight of a clock in a mirror that says it's 3:53. What time is it really. Oh, hang on, that was one of my quiz questions. How about - one primary colour is about to permanently disappear from the world, and you have to decide which one. How do you choose?
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Date: 2003-06-08 10:08 am (UTC)Most conscious? Interesting. To be honest there's a lot of animals out there that I have very little idea of exactly how conscious they are, and no way of ever telling. Pets often seem to suffer psychological as well as physical pain. I think it's fairly clear to me that a prawn say doesn't have much in the way of consciousness, but I'm not sure I'd want to try and rank all the mammals, and I suspect they probably nearly all do to varying extents. Probably one of the great apes no doubt, though I wonder how much I say that because of their similarity to us. Perhaps dolphins, for a similar level of sophistication of brain power in the sea.
2. You obtain incontrovertible proof that God does not and has never existed. Do you reveal it to the world, and why (or why not)?
Goodness, that's a hard one. I'd have to weigh up how much I think it's likely to be believed, especially by fundamentalists. (Just because it's incontrovertible doens't mean there won't be people out there who are perfectly capable of disbelieving anyway). If I thought there might be real harm caused by revealing it in a big song and dance then I'd probably not do so. But I think I'd have to tell people in a more quiet way, spread it gradually through friends and family, I think that might be a safer way.
3. If you could be granted an eidetic memory in exchange for losing everything you can remember from your birth up to three years ago, would you take the option or turn it down, and why?
Turn it down. I don't think I'm that bothered about having one anyway, I mean it's a neat gimmick but I don't think it would make a huge improvement to my life in anyway. And no way do I want to lose all those memories. There are people who would be gone. Friends and family I'd have no recollection of at all. And I may not have seen them recently (and they may well be dead) but if they're still in my memory they still exist and that's good. There are some bad memories too, but they help me see that things aren't always as bad as they might be sometimes, remind me that things can and do get better, and show me where I've gone wrong in the past so I can do my best not to do so again. Plus with memories gone I think I'd lose a lot of what makes me be me. I'll stay as I am thanks.
4. You have a choice between travelling 10, 100, 1000 or 10000 years into the future to spend one day there before returning back. Which do you choose and why?
Probably 100. 10 is too close, I risk finding out things that might make me worry about my life and so on in ways which wouldn't be very helpful. 10000 is just too far ahead for me, I don't have that much interest. And I think it might be just too alien. That leaves 100 or 1000 and I think the former will have just enough in common with the present to make it the most fascinating. Maybe we'll have our flying cars by then!
5. You catch sight of a clock in a mirror that says it's 3:53. What time is it really. Oh, hang on, that was one of my quiz questions. How about - one primary colour is about to permanently disappear from the world, and you have to decide which one. How do you choose?
Quite likely 3:23 : my brain seems to have turned the image back round to a way I expect it to look or the : would be the other side of the five, it'll probably have got the threes right (since they're not easy to mistake for anything else) but it wouldn't be surprising if it saw a backwards 2 and thught "five".
As for primary colours are we talking RGB? CMYK? Kids paints (RGBY)? What? I don't like yellow all that much as a colour, but I can't quite think what the world would be like without it. I think it's going to be pretty weird whichever though. If it's RGB probably best to get rid of one of R and G since they seem to cause most confusion with people with defective colour vision. I like red lots, so goodbye green, the trees are going to look a bit odd without you, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
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