Jonathan Cast wrote:
> Jason Dusek wrote:
> > Thus it is in practical arts -- Chinese medicine, Taiji,
> > strategy -- that one comes to appreciate the Way and its
> > Power.
>
> But nonetheless, Haskell is not a practical art, no more than
> theoretical physics or abstract algebra.
I guess the
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:14 -0800, Jason Dusek wrote:
> Andrzej Jaworski wrote:
> > First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may
> > taste has left us in an unhealthy climate. It suffices to say
> > that Taoism is a school of clever trics and cute aphorisms but
> > without the sligh
Andrzej Jaworski wrote:
> First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may
> taste has left us in an unhealthy climate. It suffices to say
> that Taoism is a school of clever trics and cute aphorisms but
> without the slightest attempt to explain or generalize let
> alone produce an abs
2008/12/22 Luke Palmer :
> Andrzej Jaworski
> > First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism...
> I associate Haskell with Zen...
The relationship between Taoism and Zen is actually very
close. The notion of "stillness practice" is essentially
Chinese. Indian schools of meditation and sch
Arnaud Bailly kindly exposed my mistake: I cited Leibniz Monadology attributing
it to Spinoza. Call
me idiot but it wasn't thoughtless mistake, I really mixed up Spinoza's concept
of 'modes' with
Leibniz's concept of 'monad'. But it is because of my laziness rather than
foolishness (at least th
Hi Luke,
When neurosurgeons split the brain into left and right hemisphere cutting it
along corpus callosum
the patient will talk to you with his left
half and right half independently - each time unaware what his other half was
talking about a moment
earlier. I believe Zen emulates such
split o
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Andrzej Jaworski wrote:
> I just want to say Hello to let you know that there are some serious
> entities watching you besides
> monads and FBI:-)
>
> There has been a hell of a discussion recently about logos, languages and
> religion and I want to add
> to this.
I just want to say Hello to let you know that there are some serious entities
watching you besides
monads and FBI:-)
There has been a hell of a discussion recently about logos, languages and
religion and I want to add
to this.
First let me disassociate Haskell from Taoism which to may taste ha
