Zoroastrianism[dualism] > Abrahamism[fictionalism] > (Judaism > Christianity > Islam [supernatural overloading]) > (Kantianism(DE/Rationalism) > Marxism(JEW/Pseudoscience) > Postmodernism(FR/Lying)) has been the source of our dark ages. The revolt against reason. The revolt against reality. The revolt against evolution. The revolt against meritocracy. The revolt against aristocracy: the revolt against natural law. Forcible Primitivism. Fictional primitivism that creates mindfulness through overloading by falsehoods. It’s a cancer to the human species. It creates a market for devolution.
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(from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math
(from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences. Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics. In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming). And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality. -
(from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math
(from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences. Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics. In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming). And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality. -
“Nature emplaces rewards (incentives) for those who affect change in state for i
—“Nature emplaces rewards (incentives) for those who affect change in state for it’s king: complexity. We march to its elegance or suffer its horrid death. There’s no escape from Nature.” — William L. Benge -
“Nature emplaces rewards (incentives) for those who affect change in state for i
—“Nature emplaces rewards (incentives) for those who affect change in state for it’s king: complexity. We march to its elegance or suffer its horrid death. There’s no escape from Nature.” — William L. Benge -
For Americans, any foreign language you would recommend for study?
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How Do You Define Philosophy?
Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism). -
How Do You Define Philosophy?
Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism). -
Every increase in explanatory power has been the result of a counter intuitive d
Every increase in explanatory power has been the result of a counter intuitive discovery that caused a costly revision of existing categories, relations and values. Just how it is. Your simple sacred cows die. New generations of superior sacred cows evolve. The slaughter continues anew. And in this stepwise fashion evolution leaves behind the detritus of past utility. 😉