kirby urner wrote: >>Please Kirby, I am talking physics, not cartoons. And as much as I >>admire Mr. J. Moose - I try not to confuse the two things. >> >> >> > >Awwwww, you're no fun. [Roger Rabbit voice] > > > >>>Yes. Wittgenstein took the same approach to logic: yes it's true, >>>but so is 0 = 0. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Not sure what you mean. If I sound like I am talking sematically, I >>certainly don't mean to be. I am thinking literally and in terms of >>practicalities, even if I am not successful in expressing it as such. >> >>We count the roses in Shakespeares. Know the exact number. Now what? >> >> > >That's some Old Europe stereotype of a computer. All these threatened >school dons, in front of a chalkboard, worried some big metal box down >the hall will put them out of a job. > > Please.
It's a simplification, yes. But absent some Kayian, intelligent agent, computer-human mind meld process, I don't think it is qualitatively wrong. And, scientifically, I am at the moment very much absent the mind-meld unit. What I think is true, but cannot prove, is that nothing will change about that, qualitatively - ever. And what's worse for your side: I have said to myself for some time that if I ever got the credit card swiped the right way around at the checkout *the first time*, I would begin to take myself more seriously. Just went to the supermarket to pick up a few things. And guess what I did... Art >Update: I want to make TV = I want to learn multi-track editing = I >need a computer = if I learn to program, I'll be able to make even >*better* TV -> [back to start of loop] > > > >>"The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel" by Rebecca Goldstein. >> >> >> > >At least not the one where Witttgenstein gets menacing next to the >fireplace. Popperians read that like a ghost story, scare themselves, >whisper about "mean old LW" to their children -- a boogey man. > > > >>circles for a good part of these lives - The Vienna Circle. Goldstein >> >> > >Yeah, LW was born into money. Was living a glam life as a courtly >genius, then gave it all up to go to Oxford, to leave the ordinary >world of Muggles and their ways and join up with Slytherin, headed by >Bertrand Russell. His Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus (known as TLP by >insiders) was his young knight-in-shining-armour debut (the women back >in Vienna swooned), then he exited stage right and wasn't heard from >in awhile. Then he returned (surprise!), this time to teach his >Philosophical Investigations, his mysterious PI -- a dark art, with LW >a hooded figure, all Darth Vadery and Jedi, with a penchant light >sabers (er fire pokers). > > > >>Also no question that Einstein and Godel were peers - just by the fact >>they chose to spend so much of their timing hanging out with each other. >>We all need folks to chat with ;) >> >>Art >> >> > >Yeah, Princeton. Those were the days. Now they point to Fine Hall >and say Einstein worked in Fine Hall, but maybe neglect to tell you >Fine Hall moved to Fine Tower since Einstein's day, next to Jadwin. >When I was on campus, Einstein's office was part of Near Eastern >Studies or something. > >Anyway, I think Princeton is one of the few Ivy League schools to do >math in a skyscraper (albeit not a very tall one -- tall enough). > >True story: at least one of my friends got help with calculus from >that beautiful mind guy (this was pre the Nobel). Nash'd materialize >in the corridor, wearing sneakers of two colors, and flutter over to >some wide-eyed scholar, living a dream. Anyway, he new everything >about calculus reportedly, and much else besides. > >Kirby > > > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
