How would you say "E = MC^2" without language?
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree that the closure of the feedback loop between peeking and poking > (experimentation) is the root of science. Of course, perhaps that's not > much of a statement _if_ that's the root of everything, as maybe the > autopoiesis guys might claim. > > An interesting question is what would the _medium_ look like for a > language-less science? Can we imagine an alternative reality where some > form video sprouted from cave paintings, through comic strips, to > movies, without written language? > > Nicholas Thompson wrote at 04/22/2013 09:41 AM: > > A really interesting exchange. It feeds into my conversation with my > Peirce > > Mentor about science being at its root experimentation and > experimentation > > being, at its root, poking the world with a stick. ("It walks like a > duck, > > it quacks like a duck. Does it squawk like a duck? [poke!] Yes. It's a > > duck!") I render this in language, but the whole thing could be done > > without language at all, unless one is one of those people who insists > that > > all thought is in language. > > > -- > =><= glen e. p. ropella > Broadcast dead revolution don't pay > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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