Comments on: It turns out, North America is an illusion https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/ Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:45:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Don Roberto https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499107 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:45:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499107 “one runs across,” of course. BlackBerry is much harder to use than a proper keyboard…

]]> By: Don Roberto https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499106 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:41:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499106 Paulino, you’re conflating “North America” with “the United States of America.” Not that I blame you–I do it myself, speaking colloquially–but North America preceded the USA by millennia (a lot of them) and will almost certainly outlive the USA too.

Unless you were being much more metaphysical, and asserting that the world is a consensus reality. I’ve wrestled with the idea myself (“I reject your reality and substitute my own”), but it seems one of those untestable things on runs across now and then. An intriguing thought-experiment (and fodder for science fiction authors), but not particularly useful.

]]> By: Paulino https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499105 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:42:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/10/it-turns-out-north-america-is/#comment-499105 not an illusion, but a consensual fiction.

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