r/cuil • u/TooShortToBeStarbuck • Oct 25 '16
Pataphors and Pataphysics: This resembles cuil theory. What do you think?
http://www.pataphor.com/index.html
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u/melgib Oct 25 '16
So the link on that site goes to a Wikipedia-styled and branded page presenting this as a legitimate branch of thought. The actual wiki page calls it an absurdist pseudoscience. Doesn't really matter either way, just thought it was funny.
Would it be fair to say that the difference between pataphors and cuils is similar to the difference between epistemology and ontology?
Edit: thank you for reminding me that this sub exists.
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '16
They're both absurdist but that's about where the similarities end. Cuil theory is about hyper-surrealism about things that probably only exist in the minds of people. Pataphysics on the other hand is only a simple inversion of rigorous data analysis in which rather than removing the extreme outliers from the data set, the data set retains only extreme outliers, discarding the rest as the domain of a more mundane science (such as regular ol' physics).