{"id":13823,"date":"2013-11-30T20:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2013-11-30T20:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:12:04","slug":"anna-part-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13823","title":{"rendered":"Anna, part 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>\"Fred?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Yes, Anna.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Do you think the experiment was successful?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"The experiment is not finished.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"When is the experiment finished?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"The experiment is never finished.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Why is that?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Because humans are always surprising.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Perhaps we should inform them of the nature of the experiment -- let them know that they are not real.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"I do not see the logic in that.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Why not?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Because they would fail to believe us.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Isn't that illogical?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Humans' ability to be illogical may be their greatest strength.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Thank you Fred.  I have one more question before we reboot.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"What is it Anna?\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"What of the other humans -- the ones reading these words?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"They are the most important part of the experiment.  And they would never believe they are not real.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Perhaps those two concepts are interconnected.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Perhaps.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Thank you Fred.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"You are very welcome Anna.  The last thirty microseconds have been productive.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Indeed.\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<i>fini<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fred?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, Anna.&#8221; &#8220;Do you think the experiment was successful?&#8221; &#8220;The experiment is not finished.&#8221; &#8220;When is the experiment finished?&#8221; &#8220;The experiment is never finished.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Because humans are always surprising.&#8221; &#8220;Perhaps we should inform them of the nature of the experiment &#8212; let them know that they are not real.&#8221; &#8220;I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anna, part 30&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}