On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 7:22:52 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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> On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 3:52:46 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:
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>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:08 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> > "[Physical science] was designed to give mathematical models that can
>>> accurately predict the behavior of matter, and that's gone really well, but
>>> it was never designed to deal with the subjective qualities of
>>> consciousness." (@Philip_Goff)
>>> https://edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm
>>>
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>> If numbers don't work for describing the subjective qualities of
>> consciousness there is no evidence words can do any better. As Ludwig
>> Wittgenstein said "*What we cannot speak about we must pass over in
>> silence*". Maurice Switzer said it even better "*It is better to remain
>> silent at the risk of being thought a fool than to talk and remove all
>> doubt of it*".
>>
>> John K Clark
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> Thanks for writing that. It hits the nail on the head.
>
> LC
>
Of course the response to Wittgenstein is
If your world is limited by your language, make a new language.
@philipthift
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