On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > It's not really that profound methinks, though I enjoy greatly your > detailing of the fascinating love/hate between Gus and Arnie. Actually they > were a couple of Jewish intellectuals competing with each other in the way > that Jewish intellectuals always have and always will. Competitiveness > amongst Jewish intellectuals is a lot of what drives science and art. Bohr > was not Jewish so Niels and Albert simply weren't on the same wavelength. > Apologies. Up until this moment, I had only been aware of the non Jewish kind of competitiveness and saw parallels also between Bohr and Everett, to take another example of these difficult kinds of relations. My point being that what seem like huge gulfs technically, can turn out to be Einstein spooking Bohr, or Mahler respecting Schönberg, or Bohr having none of Everett. In all cases you can have fruitful continuations in longer run, therefore the subject is trickier and as profound as it gets imho; not least because it's also bears on theological question. Maybe one for machines. But I'm too lazy to defend the idea or get competitive about it... PGC -- 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/d/optout.
