Author: Curt Doolittle

MICHAEL LEVIN TRANSFORMING INTO RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Sorry to express my frustration again, but Prof Michael Levin appears to be on a mad dash to surpass Rupert Sheldrake for the most absurd public intellectual. Anthropomorphism is just … ridiculous.

It’s the origin of middle eastern mythicism, and it’s a multi-millennial war against european realism, naturalism, and operationalism.

He could, instead of engaging in pseudoscience and sophistry, just refer to the spectrum of paradigms of expression from embodiment, to anthropomorphism, mythicism, to theology, to philosophy, to natural philosophy, to empiricism, to science, to operationalism.

And that each of these paradigms, from the most anthropocentric, subjective, and experiential to cosmocentric, abstract, and objective serves the purpose of reaching individuals in their intellectual development from child to sage.

We have the science of representation. It’s called N-Dimensional Neural Networks. An n-dimensional geometry. All we are doing is determining with each paradigm and grammar (rules of continuous recursive disambiguation between the permissible dimensions) the weight between the subjective and objective – the simple and broadly auto-associative and the complex and necessarily associative.

Philosophy is dead for a reason. So is theology. Because they need to be. They manifest in the ignorant as pseudoscience.

CD