On 28 Jun 2014, at 14:00, Kim Jones wrote:
On 28 Jun 2014, at 5:39 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
Given that your average 6th grader knows far more about the
universe than he ever did why in hell should I read Plotinus??
Yes, kids have the ability to understand a lot more than we give
them credit for, don't they? I walked into a class of 8th graders at
a school last week and explained to them the concept of First Person
Indeterminacy and they all understood from it that there is a very
strong indeterminism at the heart of reality which is usually
decribed as deterministic. Amazing; 8th graders (and Plotinus) can
understand it, yet you can't. Actually, I believe you do understand
it, but you just don't like it.
Congrats!
Without attenuating your merit, I think that the FPI is plausibly
easier to explain to kids than to adults, I am afraid. LOL
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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