On Friday, December 18, 2020 at 1:57:28 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: > [*Telmo Menezes*] > > “Imagine the "universe" in terms of the set of all first-person experience > moments of all of its inhabitants. Is there a limit to novelty here? Or can > qualia also display unbounded complexity?” > > [*Philip Benjamin*] > > How will you include Augustine’s (3rd - 4 th Centuries, > https://www.midwestaugustinians.org/conversion-of-st-augustine) first > person experience into your imagined universe? It was Augustine who pulled > the West out of Greco-Roman superstitious paganism and baptized Platonism > into Scriptural norms and thus became the architect of Western > Civilization. > The Hellenic-Latin world was better off before Augustine or for that matter the whole Christian nonsense. With Augustine came not some great age, but rather a dark age. There are a few sparks of wisdom in his *Confessions*, but largely I fail to see him as being one of the great minds.
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