Unless one believes AI isn’t possible, or that machine learning doesn’t make holistic assessments, this seems pretty ridiculous. It is all implemented on logic.
From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:55 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] it's world logic day! No, Nick. Thinking logically is just not thinking holistically, it misses the whole enchilada, and one of the reasons we're doomed--clumsy, but the best I have time to come up with now. On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:24 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com>> wrote: Merle, I think the objection you have to logic flows from the misunderstanding of what logic is. If you define logic is thinking that leads to truth, then any thinking that leads to truth is logical, and the project of Logic Studies is the project of finding out what sorts of thinking lead that way. So, I would re-interpret your objection to be that logic, as we know it, is so constrained as to be dangerous and misleading. I don’t want us to give up on truth-seeking – as the pragmatists understood truth. [Glen, I stipulate your objections.] Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com<mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:00 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com<mailto:friam@redfish.com>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] it's world logic day! I find this celebration very disturbing and even dangerous at a time when some are beginning to realize that logic alone is bereft of the complexity of all the ways of being in a more-than-human world. On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:32 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks, Glen, It’s nice to know that logic is being celebrated. Still – surprise!—I have a correction. Logic ... [is] the principles of [right] reasoning, Funny how, this article, a celebration of logic, buggers the definition of logic, leaving out it’s ethical dimension. Well, unless one believes that specious or fallacious logic is “logical”, logic is “good” thought, i.e. thought that leads probably to the truth. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of EthologTy and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com<mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:48 AM To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com<mailto:friam@redfish.com>> Subject: [FRIAM] it's world logic day! https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldlogicday > > > The ability to think is one of the most defining features of humankind. In > different cultures, the definition of humanity is associated with concepts > such as consciousness, knowledge and reason. According to the classic western > tradition, human beings are defined as “rational” or “logical animals”. > Logic, as the investigation on the principles of reasoning, has been studied > by many civilizations throughout history and, since its earliest > formulations, logic has played an important role in the development of > philosophy and the sciences. > > Despite its undeniable relevance to the development of knowledge, sciences > and technologies, there is little public awareness on the importance of > logic. The proclamation of World Logic Day by UNESCO, in association with the > International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), intends to > bring the intellectual history, conceptual significance and practical > implications of logic to the attention of interdisciplinary science > communities and the broader public. > > A dynamic and global annual celebration of World Logic Day aims at fostering > international cooperation, promoting the development of logic, in both > research and teaching, supporting the activities of associations, > universities and other institutions involved with logic, and enhancing public > understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and > innovation. Furthermore, the celebration of World Logic Day can also > contribute to the promotion of a culture of peace, dialogue and mutual > understanding, based on the advancement of education and science. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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