Here’s a fun game. Try to guess which of these were posted to Twitter by Deepak Chopra, and which were generated randomly by the algorithm at http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/.
Five are real, five are randomly generated:
A) “Impermanence keeps life fresh.”
B) “Your movement is rooted in the expression of possibilities.”
C) “Our consciousness is as much an activity of the universe as a spiraling galaxy.”
D) “The unpredictable illuminates visible creativity.”
E) “Nature is inherent in humble sensations.”
F) “You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.”
G) “The light of awareness brings the universe into manifestation.”
H) “Awareness regulates reckless experiences.”
I) “The silent witness of thought is free of thought and therefore universal.”
J) “Intuition arises and subsides in ephemeral energy.”
Answers posted in the comments.
Real: A,C,F,G,I
Random: B,D,E,H,J
T. Ryan Gregory(Quote)
Actually got them all. The generator isn’t bad, but (as much as I am loathe to give Chopra any credit) the things he actually said still make considerably more sense than the fake ones. (That is, they make sense syntactically – they’re still rather silly and possibly meaningless.)
DialsAdder(Quote)
Fair enough, but to be honest, I couldn’t remember which were which and had to search his Twitter feed to confirm. Plus, there are several on there that are grammatically goofy, which I omitted so as not to seem like a trick.
TR Gregory(Quote)
Can anyone play? My favorite: Beer is the quanta of reality.
Jim(Quote)
The machine-generated quotes are quite profound. It just goes to show that our perception of randomness is the universe’s way of tickling our consciousness.
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ngong(Quote)
Has Chopra already claimed that the discovery of the Higgs somehow proves his points?
Claudio(Quote)
Yes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/god-particle_b_1674717.html
T. Ryan Gregory(Quote)
Hey, why don’t we give these to Bill Dembski and ask him to compute the amount of Complex Specified Information in each quote? Presumably the random quotes should have zero CSI. If he had an equation to test them with, that is.
diogenes(Quote)