What happens with the (unconscious) nominalists is that you fight the details while ignoring the categories. I have the least interest in discussing the life of Boltzmann or anyone. What is important for me is to stress that suicide and depression is a form of social apoptosis.
2015-04-26 3:07 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 4/20/2015 3:51 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > * once day by day survival is solved, people need a meaning.* > > > If it works for them why is it your problem? > > > That is why modern people put his life at risk in extreme sports and so > on: short term risk evade from existential vacuum. > > 2015-04-20 12:49 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>: > >> The amazing thing is how what would happen in 100 trillion years may >> preoccupy so seriously to some people that would induce to suicide. >> Boltzman committed suicide in part because his own theories of >> termodinamical dead of the universe more or less. >> > > Nonsense. He was in poor health and he had long suffered drastic swings > in mood. Today he would be diagnosed as bipolar. He also had reason to > be depressed because his ideas were rejected on the Continent. They were > considered crazy because it was obviously impossible to derive irreversible > processes from reversible physics. > > >> Other people are influenced equally hard, but unconsciously by very >> long term perspectives that are beyond his own timespan. >> >> And this tells something very important about the human condition: once >> day by day survival is solved, people need a meaning. that means that he >> need to live in a society with a plan and to work for this plan, which is a >> kind of salvation. This is in the constitution of human beings, induced by >> evolution if you like, but it is there no doubt. suicide means that the >> person think unconsciously that it can not contribute. >> > > Yes, I think that is more accurate than suicide over thermodynamics. > Boltzmann's successor Paul Ehrenfest also committed suicide and also > suffered severe depression. Ehrenfest was always very critical of > himself. After arranging for the care of his other children, he shot his > Down syndrome son and then himself. > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- 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/d/optout.
