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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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William Rowan Hamilton

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9:51

…and then like good Buddhists, Presumably we can vanish into the void again. Another Great Irish Thinker was William Rowan Hamilton. He's generally considered the greatest mathematician Ireland ever produced. Now from ancient times until Hamilton, it was…

9:59

…Great Irish Thinker was William Rowan Hamilton. He's generally considered the greatest mathematician Ireland ever produced. Now from ancient times until Hamilton, it was believed that x times y equals y times x. I'm sure some of you encountered that at some…

10:38

…on the Face of it just like partridge is arguing he's alive he must be alive. That does not account for Irish Logic. Rowan Hamilton said: god I'll prove it's not true. And he invented a system of mathematics in which x times y does not equal y times…

58:03

…to pronounce Irish names. It should be Barclay. Bishop Barclay proved the universe doesn't exist but god thinks it does. And William Rowan Hamilton, the Great Irish Mathematician who proved that a times b does not equal b times a, contrary to all previous…