> On 29 Oct 2019, at 09:46, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 7:22:52 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 3:52:46 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:08 PM Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com <>> wrote: > > > "[Physical science] was designed to give mathematical models that can > > accurately predict the behavior of matter, and that's gone really well, but > > it was never designed to deal with the subjective qualities of > > consciousness." (@Philip_Goff) > https://edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm > <https://edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm> > > If numbers don't work for describing the subjective qualities of > consciousness there is no evidence words can do any better. As Ludwig > Wittgenstein said "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence". > Maurice Switzer said it even better "It is better to remain silent at the > risk of being thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt of it". > > John K Clark > > Thanks for writing that. It hits the nail on the head. > > LC > > > Of course the response to Wittgenstein is > > If your world is limited by your language, make a new language.
That will be quite useful to get a semantic for the first language, and this how we do it in practice (in everyday life and in mathematical logic), but the semantic of the second language will suffer the same drawback. One answer to Wittgenstein is “what are you talking about?” Bruno > > @philipthift > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/52c64351-4c73-459d-972f-478d5a7899f5%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/52c64351-4c73-459d-972f-478d5a7899f5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/C88E5BA2-F773-43CF-AC7B-E307722C0E31%40ulb.ac.be.
