Phillip, just to be clear, he is big on favoring a different set of rules for Black people, in superiority over others, specifically Whites and East Asians? If he has descended to ideology (a faith without a god) then he is just another totalitarian. George Carlin was brilliant, and I liked his puns, intellectual or not? He loved absurdity. For Shermer back 15 years ago when he tweaked A.C. Clarke's First Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Shermer changed it to Shermer's last law: "Any sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable from God." When I first read that, I said: SOLD! (gavel bangs). One thing among my many flaws are, is not ungrateful. Thanks for the heads up about Shermer's descent into 'virtue signalling self righteous totalitarianism." My own phrase for this phenomena. My current obsession on cognitive-bio-physics, was a paper led by physicist (2018) led by Andrew Strominger:https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179506/lectures-on-the-infrared-structure-of-gravity-and-gauge-theory https://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/233 This was also Stephen Hawking's last paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01847 Guilio Prisco is a retired Italian physicist who worked at CERN (setting up the computer systems there), and then worked for the ESA. He now lives in Hungary, a very neat guy! https://turingchurch.net/the-infrared-memory-of-the-universe-hints-at-future-akashic-physics-3f9a072f0ca6 Prisco coathered a book with AI-Robotics guru Ben Goertzel ten years ago, The Cosmist Manifesto. http://cosmistmanifesto.blogspot.com/ Take care! Mitch
-----Original Message----- From: Philip Thrift <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jul 28, 2020 4:48 am Subject: Re: Hegel in a Wired Brain 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. -- 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/475667008.7143800.1595966210417%40mail.yahoo.com.
