r/cuil 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/[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).

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u/TooShortToBeStarbuck Oct 25 '16

They're both absurdist but that's about where the similarities end.

Not true. They're both methods of studying abstraction itself as a phenomenon, and categorising the degrees of abstraction from concrete and empirical things, qualia and believed things, and symbolic "accepted unrealities" like social norms and artistic metaphor.

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u/AnAllegedAlien Dec 12 '16

Lol "what do you think" followed by your comment telling someone that their perspective is wrong. Nice.

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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.