Tolkien rejected the notion that Bombadil is God[2] and this is suggested when Frodo asks Goldberry just who Tom Bombadil is; she responds by simply saying “He is” (which Tolkien was careful to distinguish from the Biblical “I Am that I Am”).[3]

Luboš at least upgraded me from “moral trash” to a “mad engineer.”

The shows might as well be broadcast from another universe, one where nobody ever had body odor or crook-teeth or a dead mouse caught in their hair.

The dog, for the record, received the most applause during the curtain calls at the preview performance I saw.

You can smell a rose, and the rose can smell good, but that doesn’t mean the rose can smell you.

Let us now turn to another example of a counterintuitive prediction for which we may already have some suggestive evidence, namely that certain kinds of 2D grids may be conscious.

Granted, maybe such zombies can’t exist in the actual world: maybe, if you tried to create one, God would notice its large Φ-value and generously bequeath it a soul.

This becomes clear if we ask a simple question like: what fraction of the mathematical multiverse consists of worlds that contain nothing but a single three-dimensional cube?

We generate a magnetic force which is carcinogenic to the elf-lords and their underlings.