Philosophical excerpt with a Rumsfeld quote, no actionable lead

190 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? repeat. To create the random number in my example above I went to www. random.org, a website that uses fluctuations in atmospheric quantum noise to generate random numbers. As far as we know quantum effects are truly random and have neither rhyme nor reason. Numbers are more complex than they first appear. They are infinite, yet there are different infinities, and they have meaning. The smallpox example above and the Turing numbers we will discover shortly suggest numbers do have meaning independent of culture and language. The next two chapters will show us what happens when we think about the meaning of numbers. We will also explain one more ‘super infinity’ and this will be the key to understanding creativity. “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we dont know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld United States Secretary of Defense (2001-2006, 1975-1977) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880