Every AI scientist, category theorist or semioticist, and cognitive psychologist just tries to redo the work of Aristotle or Spinoza with different names and in a donwgraded way, to fit the fashion prejudices and the needs of this time, that includes extreme reductionist scientifists like you.
2013/9/11 John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > > Einstein read Kant, and loved Spinoza, and admit his influence in his >> own research. >> > > He may have read and loved detective stories too. Einstein was interested > in things other than science, like politics, and those thinkers may have > helped him there, but not in his serious work. As for Spinoza, this is what > Richard Feynman had to say: > > "My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking > at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There > were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing > around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this > great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no > excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey > studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of > analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of > Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the > world and you can't tell which is right." > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Alberto. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
