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gjm11
on Feb 4, 2010
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Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
It is not original to Hofstadter; it comes from the Mumonkan:
http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/29.html
. Of course the original doesn't call the sixth patriarch "Zeno"; it leaves him unnamed. (The sixth patriarch actually appears to have been called Huineng:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateless_Gate#Case_29:_Huin...
.)
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