Interesting comments though. J A
4 apr 2013 kl. 10.26 skrev ADRIE KINTZIGER: > First book written in qr code entirely > http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/93a2090d-d655-42b1-a8fa-d59fd3401a07/free-kindle-book-written-entirely-in-qr-code-after-the-revolution-has-passed-us > > nice naming , device literature , language only as data-transfer > better attempt than importing math into language > > Adrie > > > 2013/4/4 david buchanan <[email protected]> > >> Ant McWatt said: >> ..I probably receive correspondence about the "new secret of the universe" >> once every month and most of this [...] is arcane nonsense. However, >> being a philosopher (rather than a philosophiologist) is - I think anyway - >> about trying to keep an open, beginner's mind. So despite the tons of >> bullshit that such a mind has to go through, at least there are the >> occasional pearls of wisdom such as the MOQ. Moreover, reading Eddo's last >> couple of posts, I do think there might be a little more than "psychotic >> nonsense" to his ideas (i.e. his answer to Dave that he's using mathematics >> for his philosophical system as it is the least culturally biased >> "language" makes some sense; at least on face value). Anyway, it will be >> interesting to see how this particular converstion pans out. >> >> >> >> dmb says: >> Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between brilliant and crazy - >> but usually it's pretty damn easy. >> >> As I see it, Pirsig accomplished what he did despite his "illness", not >> because of it. He didn't see what he saw because he was insane but because >> he did the work. He thought and thought and read and read for years and >> then he was faced with a practical problem in his professional life and his >> solution was scrutinized by the community in which he worked and then later >> by the "officials" at the University of Chicago. Even as he was getting >> himself thrown out, he thought "I'll just have to write my thesis in some >> other way". And so he did. In one of the early interviews (NPR in 1974) he >> describes ZAMM as "a dissertation embedded in a narrative". The narrative >> is a powerful story of redemption to those who've suffered from mental >> illness, wherein madness is a divine gift and not a curse or a burden - >> but the dissertation stands or falls because it makes sense or it doesn't. >> Sorry, but we don't get any extra points for the pain suffered in the >> production of a thesis. It's good a >> nd right or it's not so good and not so right. >> >> There is plenty of room to accommodate different tastes and sensibilities. >> No reasonable person would be opposed to open-mindedness but we also need >> to be discerning and sensitive to the qualities that separate good ideas >> from confused or convoluted drivel. I'm not talking about formal rigor or >> fancy rules. But can we not rule out the bat shit crazy, please? >> >> >> Jeez. Is this a discussion group or a psychiatric hostipal? >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> > > > > -- > parser > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
