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Is this illness or genius?

Anyone in Vegas who can get in touch with him in meat reality?

I e-mailed him. I'm interested in installing and playing with this thing. I have an Athlon x64 box that's currently experiencing crash-boom bios issues, but if I get it running I want to throw this on a drive and see what happens!

It's not every day that I run into a NEW OS!!!

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I e-mailed him months ago. The reply I got was a rapid chain of incoherent mails about conspiracies between government and his doctors and quotes from the bible. It's illness.

Sorry, but did he really quote from the new testament, or was it instead the ramblings of "God"? I have a special academic interest in schizophrenia; btw, Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a fantastic read.

I believe most of his "quotes" are markov chain output (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain) or somehow otherwise automatically generated. It seems he thinks randomness provides a communication channel, something like if he generates messages while incorporating randomness then god can influence the output and encode messages for him.

That's just the impression I have gotten though.

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