On 24 Jan 2017, at 00:31, Brent Meeker wrote:
HERE is an Aeon essay by Carlo Rovelli on the amazing prescience of
our ancient forebears. It also a corrective to Bruno's frequent
assertion that it was only Plato to who taught that things might be
different than they appeared
I cite Pythagoras, and all the mystics of China and India, antic, but
still more represented in the East than in the West. Plato is just a
good reference. Plato himself is neutral but just well aware of the
alternative, and very cautious before concluding. Socrates is mainly a
refuter of theories. The Plato of the Timeaeus is almost Aristotelian.
The Plato of Parmenides is the Plato of the neoplatonists, and the
position quasi enforced by the computationalist hypothesis.
We are not doing history here, we are just trying to make the
alternatives clear, and to look how some hypotheses can put weight on
some of them.
Where would I have said "only" Plato?
and that this contrary to the materialist school of Miletus.
You can elaborate. I am not sure what you are saying here.
Bruno
Brent
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