Monday, June 25, 2012

Identity Difference Repetition


At over 200 million, the population of Uttar Pradesh is now double the world-wide target population of 100 million put forward by Arne Naess.

And having exceeded 5 million, what was to be the target population of the former nation of Norway?

With some 200 Sumatran rhinos remaining, what was the ratio of rhino to hominid back in the golden age before, say, the mastery of cave fire?

A game with numbers: very human.

Metro Lucknow is about the population of metro Montreal; Kanpur about the same.

The Oslo region is about half as many as either.

And thanks to Arne Naess, Oslo philosophers are required to prove that they can use set theory to show that they can say what they mean.

Now let us compare mountains, while trying to think like the repeating difference.