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o discuss is not really fit to enter into the discussion socrates put it in a nutshell when he said that those who presume to already know the answer or all the answers will not make a sincere effort at inquiry i went through 4 years of st john s and i would do it all over i met a few people who were truly intellectually honest and would directly and aggressively take a stand on something important but i met a lot more phonies who made it through 4 years just wrinkling their nose in seminar and saying but i dont get it how can you say all of the world is basically divided into a few limb crawlers and a multitude of limb sawyers a limb crawler has the courage and ambition to crawl way out on a limb and take a risk assembling together many and various points and passages in order to assert something new something important limb sawyers are a parasitic species they cannot exist without a limb crawler they hack away at whatever constructive effort the limb crawler is making if they succeed what they succeed in is simply refuting the limb crawler jay writes i always felt that questions of existence were ill or vaguely posed what would be the criteria to meet in order to exist in the eidetic reality steven writes ms saracen and mr hales seem to have a point and mr buell despite being spot on should seem more contrite as a result william replies personal friendship between einstein and kurt godel search on articles which explain the fundamental difference in the way that einstein saw mathematics vs the way godel saw it i read a lot of that a long time ago and it helped me to see some things godel definitely held the platonic view that the objects of mathematics had some ideal existence like plato s forms and that somehow reality was a shadow or penumbra einstein had the opposite view einstein also made one off hand remark which i find utterly intriguing einstein said that it is impossible for anyone to inductively arrive at the theory of relativity from empirical observations i am paraphrasing from memory what i read many years ago this means that although the existence of rabbits in no way violates the principles of quantum physics one cannot study rabbits and inductively intuit quantum poker obeys the laws of statistics and probability but one would not study statistics and probability to learn how to play poker i may be totally wrong in how i took einstein s off hand remark but here is how i took it the human imagination is a kalaidescope of non being horned rabbits and unicorns which can churn out a countless number of different axiomatic systems suddenly one day someone or perhaps several people simply stumble upon an odd coincidence in mathematics which closely resemble some empirical observations next they get something which kind of seems to work like ptolemy s epicycles you can make a lot of accurate calculations up to a point but then the question becomes does our mathematical model reveal something about the underlying nature of the observed phenomena ptolemy called in sozein ta phainomena saving the observations ptolemy got close copernicus closer kepler closer still newton seemed to be right on the money but then things break down on an inter galactic or sub atomic scenario einstein gets closer still but well i think you get my point and if you dont get my point by now then you dont have the foundation to even read about this stuff i am not the person to put a bib on anyone and spoon feed them because i am intellectually and academically limited in fact i am an over achiever since i do not really have the credentials or training to speak authoritatively on these things the mistake that many people younger people make is to think that the they can find a thread like mine and then say so what i dont get it show me that is not what you are supposed to be doing with your life you are supposed to be digging deeply into all thats available and you are supposed to be giving me a hand and helping me out of the darkness of plato s cave reality and let me step into the light of pure being so if all you can do is wrinkle your nose say i dont get it and ask me a few questions then you are wasting your life and time you should go do something more constructive what i don t know so dont ask me one of my posts this week has to do with a mathematician with some work on an equation who met a physicist and he saw that it was closely related to quantum energy states that is an example of what einstein was talking about i suspect no steven read what i just wrote get your ass in gear stop being a limb sawyer we have enough in the g o p and start being a limb crawler cause listening to negative people like you is not going to get me anywhere steven negativity is relative to agree with you makes me a drone to disagree with you makes me a sloth i reject both options i believe in careful reading i even re read jayjay s and justine s responses to ensure that they weren t sawing limbs my assent prompted me to write those words not a desire to gainsay what you had uttered at the risk of sounding dronish i agree with all the rest that you are saying by the way william i dont care whether you agree with me or disagree with me i want you to stand on your own two feet and say something anything that does not depend on what i have said and dissect my previous statements and play petty word games like the pre socratic sophists don t you get it don t any of you ever look in the mirror and read everything you have ever written for the past 10 or 20 years and see how empty it is do you think christopher hitchens has made great contributions to knowledge i do not i dont give a crap about what any of you agree or disagree with say something on your own go out on a limb take a risk tell me how it really is without quoting something i have said back to me boggle my mind my mind is fairly puny so that should not be too much of a challenge but at least try at least make the effort don t be a bunch of parasites steven no student should ever be required to defend his ignorance some of us are assembled here to overcome that and not because we like the sound of our own typing i know a lot of people with puny minds you would not guess that they are independent because their intellects are no greater than mine it must be that puny is a relative term as well and that in order for this puny mind to grow i need the assurance that you don t truly think of me as a parasite i knew what you meant but was not given the heads up that this is a timed test i understand your frustration some just don t get it but if a thing is knowable then i believe a teacher can guide the way to knowing it only if he recognizes the potential barriers to learning penny oh for pitys sake dont rage at them william its counterproductive personally i believe mathamatics operate outside human conceptions despite being defined by them take imaginary numbers for example what is the purpose of them to describe something we cannot see much less hope to understand yet someone had to think what if before they could be discovered defined and accepted math as a whole follows rules wether we want it to or not as any child sitting in a classroom looking to the black ahem i meant of course green board will tell you it is a tool a language and a state of mind all at the same time anyone who wishes to master it has my well wishes and ultimately my respect jay yes i feel like what do we mean by eidetic existence is interesting and worth considering although i have thought about it a bunch and not come up with anything very coherent or persuasive i m in a math program i actually thought that the zen koan had a lot of relevance to this as it seems to raise the question of how important independence from the observer is with regards to granting existence to an object there is perhaps some solid thought related to this observer object existence question done in the particular case of existence of schrodinger s cat in 3 1 dimensional space etc etc william i was thinking about schrodinger s cat bertrand russell and alfred north whitehead attempted to place all of mathematics on a logical foundation with principia mathematica but failed so i am told for reasons that are connected with godel s indefiniteness theorem bertrand russell personally knew wittgenstein and openly admitted that he felt dwarfed by wittgenstein s towering intellect http en wikipedia org wiki tractatus_logico philosophicus this proposition 7 comes to mind for obvious reasons where or of what one cannot speak one must pass over in silence i suspect that human understanding is limited but i am no mathematician or physicist i do remember the first time i learned that andrew wiles solved the fermat problem and quite literally tears of joy and wonder streamed down my face regarding my earlier remark about tsim tsum you might one day enjoy reading the life of pi novel by yann martel which is built around the notion of divine contraction and i suppose jain anekantavada multipointedness http en wikipedia org wiki life_of_pi william oh yes i should have mentioned my thought about how kant wanted to put an end to any future metaphysical speculation in his prolegomena hegel dreamed of a time of absolute knowledge where history time would cease since there would be nothing new i suspect both kant and hegel considered the human capacity for understanding to be unlimited morris kline s book about mathematical uncertainty seems to suggest both the imperfection of mathematics and also that mathematicians will never be unemployed in their sisyphean task like smoothing the bumps out of an infinite carpet and they always pop up somewhere else http www superstringtheory com history history4 html http library thinkquest org 04apr 01330 media timeline htm http en wikipedia org wiki timeline_of_the_big_bang http en wikipedia org wiki theory_of_everything theory 1 god produces the universe god creates the universe so we understand why there is a universe but why god what is god where did god come from theory 2 there is no such thing as god or purpose but there is all this universe stuff which just happened and furthermore just happened to produce conscious beings who puzzle about all this theory 3 the universe produces god bear with me big bang stars planets cooling evolution intelligence science the sentient beings gradually become as god creating life creating other universes black holes finally destroying everything which becomes another big bang to start all over again theory 4 take theory 3 and have in happening in black holes tucked inside black holes tucked inside black holes this is like a buddhist dependent co arising on a grand scale the god thing is prior to being non being space time eternity universe constantly begets god which constantly begets universe if one could speak of the existence of god then god would become part of the causal matrix and be subject to aristotle s anangke necessity hence god is prior to being and non being and time god cannot existed in the universe so god contracts tsim tsum and a place makom is created for the universe to happen a place where god is not so on the quantum level every sub atomic particle wavering flickering pulsating between being and non being is an entire cosmos these countless worlds without end emanate a kind of morphic resonance which affects and synchronizes each other just saying http en wikipedia org wiki isaiah_berlin berlin argued that johann georg hamann was one of the first thinkers to conceive of human cognition as language the articulation and use of symbols berlin saw hamann as having recognised as the rationalist s cartesian fallacy the notion that there are clear and distinct ideas which can be contemplated by a kind of inner eye without the use of language a recognition greatly sharpened in the 20th century by wittgenstein s private language argument http en wikipedia org wiki private_language_argument if the idea of a private language is incoherent then it would follow that all language is essentially public that language is at its core a social phenomenon this would have profound implications for other areas of philosophical study for instance if one cannot have a private language it might not make any sense to talk of private sensations such as qualia nor might it make sense to talk of a word as referring to a concept where a concept is understood to be a private mental state in order to count as a private language in wittgenstein s sense it must be in principle incapable of translation into an ordinary language note compare this to the muslim concept of qur anic non translatability if for example it were to describe those inner experiences supposed to be inaccessible to others the private language being considered is not simply a language in fact understood by one person but a language that in principle can only be understood by one person so the last speaker of a dying language would not be speaking a private language since the language remains in principle learnable a private language must be unlearnable and untranslatable and yet it must appear that the speaker is able to make sense of it a recurrent theme in wittgenstein s work is that for some term or utterance to have a sense it must be conceivable that it be doubted for wittgenstein tautologies do not have sense do not say anything and so do not admit of doubt but furthermore if any other sort of utterance does not admit of doubt it must be senseless posted in facebook mathematics software leave a comment jailbreaking and crack warez may 22 2010 i do realize that many people jailbreak their phones but give the cost of repair replacement and the intimate relationship between hardware and software and service provider i am hesitant to play such games i am equally hesitant to use illegal crack warez copies of software not simply because it is stealing but also because the time i would invest using the software or operating system is more valuable than the price of a legal copy just some thoughts perhaps others will disagree or see a flaw in my thinking tags cell crack illegal jailbreak software warez posted in ethics software uncategorized 3 comments did you try out the latest ver of ubuntu may 3 2010 a facebook friend just asked me this question reply noel i spent literally 100 hours installing and reinstalling ubuntu 9 1 on an old 280 gig gateway that my step daughter was kind enough to donate i documented blow by blow each and every miserable step of the undocumented way at my blog https williambuell wordpress com when i finally got it working i foolishly tried to implement a backup procedure which proceeded to trash my entire system making it unbootable i began the re install procedure at 12 01am saturday morning by 7 30am i had a working install so because i documented every miserable step of the way on wordpress i was able to re create in 7 hours what originally took me 100 hours and had 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