0 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/316/thumb/Interrobang_fcm.png?1244220239 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/316/square/Interrobang_fcm.png?1244220239 2009-06-05T16:44:00Z Reddit 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= deadpool Cuil, Hamburger, Raccoon, Cuil Theory, Reddit 1 <p>Cuil Theory is derived from a <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raids_reveal_baby_farms/c06cqxb">post on Reddit</a> in Fall 2008. At the time, the search engine Cuil had been in the news for not attaining its position as the &#8216;Google-Killer&#8217;.</p> <p>Discussions on the internet about the quantum search results garnered from using Cuil were a staple of most social sites. One such discussion created a small mathematical and philosophical theory about how the search capabilities within Cuil could be used to represent a framework for analyzing small scale variations from consensus reality.</p> <p>Due to Cuil&#8217;s relatively inaccurate level of search quality compared to Google, Reddit users came to agree upon the &#8220;Cuil&#8221; becoming a new hypothetical unit of measurement representing one layer of abstraction from true reality. Reddit user RedDyeNumber4 presented a full list of hamburger-based scenarios in the epic thread.</p> <p>To quote from the wikidot page of the <a href="http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com">Cuil Theory site</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>The popular conception of the Cuil is heavily informed by the thought of Immanuel Kant. In The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant lays out what he describes as his &#8220;Copernican Revolution&#8221;. He insists that the world we experience is informed by the world as it truly is and the restraints of our own consciousness. Thus, we can never really know what&#8217;s happening in the world as it truly exists except that it has a role in shaping the world that we experience. Kant believed this realization was similar to realizing that the sun, not earth, is at the center of the solar system.</p> <p>Cuil Philosophers believe that as the study of Cuil advances, we&#8217;ll approach an understanding that will show that the Cuil level of a situation is equivalent to the number of sets of limits of consciousness are being superimposed over the world as it really is.</p> <p>For example, a 2 Cuil abstraction occurs when the world as it truly is informs a world of experience in conjunction with one set of consciousness constraints, and that the world of experience would then inform a second world of experience in conjunction with a second set of consciousness constraints.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>More in-depth information about this philosophy can be found <a href="http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/philosophy-of-cuil">here</a>.</strong></p> 2009-07-27T17:15:35Z 316 7 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/316/original/Interrobang_fcm.png?1244220239