I don't think *Michael Shermer* - who rants on his Twitter feed about those who have* "fallen for regressive left's obsession with race" - *is like George Carlin. I find him repulsive.
@philipthrift On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 4:26:31 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > I like Shermer and his sense of humor in the way that liked George Carlin, > with Carlin being the brighter of the two. Beyond this, well maybe mind and > spirit are just old fashioned terms by the ancients (DOTA?) for quantum > electron dynamics skipping the Planck length? If this is the view, then > yeah, everything is material. For philosophy the 'dualism,' ain't > Descartes, but close enough for government work, as we say, stateside. > Again, we drift into Wittgenstein's semiotics! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2020 3:41 pm > Subject: Re: Hegel in a Wired Brain > > You haven't by chance attended this course? > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRdTugBInz1_8dZtuR7G4jWUYj6yVWUsg&time_continue=1&v=CD8HeoZF9cM&feature=emb_logo > > Brent > > On 7/27/2020 9:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 25 Jul 2020, at 19:32, spudboy100 via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds interesting from an interesting contemporary philosopher. I think > (without reading it) that Hegel would be confused at the science we have > since discovered, and who would blame him? 150 years later, I suspect > Wittgenstein would've picked up on neurobiology-cognitive > science-computing, like a shot! This is just my speculation, and thanks for > the book notification. > > > > Hegel missed the Phenomenology of Matter. Phenomenology of Mind or Spirit > is an oxymoron. > > Russell and Wittgenstein missed Gödel’s theorem. > > Lucas and Penrose missed the key fact that PA, PM, ZF, do *not* miss > Gödel’s theorem. > > The neuro-study of brain will teach us a lot on the human and mammal > intelligence, but not so much about consciousness, as it would be like > understanding how deep blue win a chess game by looking at the theory of > electronic transistor. > Consciousness is a high level semantic fixed point. It is the > (arithmetical) truth, when known immediately, which is indubitable and > experienced (first person) yet non rationally definable, and non definable > without invoking the notion truth or reality. All universal number have it, > but it is very plausibly a highly “altered state of consciousness”. It is > the initial state before the first differentiation/histories possibles. > > Bruno > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Thrift <[email protected]> > To: Everything List <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, Jul 25, 2020 5:29 am > Subject: Hegel in a Wired Brain > > Hegel's 250th birtthday is next month. > > > New book: > > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48925362-hegel-in-a-wired-brain > > > @philipthrift > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/14a45192-e864-4d72-890c-0c5dac18bb99n%40googlegroups.com.
