(diary) Listening to fellow Seattlite Greg Johnson, same interest in (a) art his

(diary)

Listening to fellow Seattlite Greg Johnson, same interest in (a) art history (b) archaeology (“Gods Graves and Scholars), but instead of philosophy and culture, I was interested in the history of war, history of invention, science, cognitive science, AI and computers – and not in philosophy and culture. I was (as an aspie) far more anti-social. I remember starting with Durant’s POV that after his study of Philosophy, there is nothing much there, and history provides insight into man. I have ended up viewing law as the only honest philosophy.

So despite similar backgrounds and gene pools we approached the problem differently.

I used to complain that my mind had been transformed by writing so much software, and that it had affected my writing. And it wasn’t until I’d understood the failure of the operational/intuitionist revolution, that I grasped that the reason I’d made the discovery (or connection) was precisely because I had been so affected by writing programs, each statement of which is a test of existential possibility.

It’s the same reason that I am clueless about pop trends in the alt-right and libertarian movements. I don’t read ‘points of view’ or ‘opinions’ or ‘beliefs’ so much as ‘what is’. It’s why I reduce statements to equilibrial transfers.

Kind of fun to listen to someone so similar who took a different path.