Every AI scientist, category theorist or semioticist, and cognitive psychologist just tries to redo the work of Aristotle or Spinoza with different names and in a donwgraded way, to fit the fashion prejudices and the needs of this time, that includes extreme reductionist scientifists like you.
2013/9/11 John Clark <[email protected]> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Einstein read Kant, and loved Spinoza, and admit his influence in his >> own research. >> > > He may have read and loved detective stories too. Einstein was interested > in things other than science, like politics, and those thinkers may have > helped him there, but not in his serious work. As for Spinoza, this is what > Richard Feynman had to say: > > "My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking > at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There > were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing > around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this > great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no > excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey > studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of > analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of > Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the > world and you can't tell which is right." > > John K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
