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Dr. Banner
I sometimes wish I could fully express myself like the Hulk does . Should have studied gamma rays instead agriculture.
Venturaeque hiemis expectare non possum
Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?
You were recently quoted as saying that philosophy “hasn’t progressed in two thousand years.” But computer science, particularly research into artificial intelligence was to a large degree built on foundational work done by philosophers in logic and other formal languages. And certainly philosophers like John Rawls have been immensely influential in fields like political science and public policy. Do you view those as legitimate achievements?
Krauss: Well, yeah, I mean, look I was being provocative, as I tend to do every now and then in order to get people’s attention. There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy you have literature or logic, which in my view is really mathematics. Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they’re really doing is mathematics—-it’s not talking about things that have affected computer science, it’s mathematical logic. And again, I think of the interesting work in philosophy as being subsumed by other disciplines like history, literature, and to some extent political science insofar as ethics can be said to fall under that heading. To me what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that’s generated in other areas.
I’m not sure that’s right. I think that in some cases philosophy actually generates new fields. Computer science is a perfect example. Certainly philosophical work in logic can be said to have been subsumed by computer science, but subsumed might be the wrong word—-
Krauss: Well, you name me the philosophers that did key work for computer science; I think of John Von Neumann and other mathematicians, and—-
But Bertrand Russell paved the way for Von Neumann.
Krauss: But Bertrand Russell was a mathematician. I mean, he was a philosopher too and he was interested in the philosophical foundations of mathematics, but by the way, when he wrote about the philosophical foundations of mathematics, what did he do? He got it wrong.
Vodka 6 sliced lemons diced ginger root and ten basil leaves. Let sit in glass container for seven days. Will taste like limoncello
So glad I didn’t get that jacket.
You want me to go to Trader Joe’s for you, I give you a 5 minute window… (Taken with instagram)
Cymbalta
Listening to the first 30 seconds of this commercial made me wonder am I depressed. I have bad days (it’s called work and grown folk business). I wake up and I am sore sometimes (isn’t that called getting old).
Am I depressed??? I will be if Obama does not get a second term.
My drink
The first sip is smooth on the tip of my tongue and rough against my esophagus as it washes down my throat. The aftertaste is of warm vanilla
The second sip has me considering my options. Do I go the road not taken but still with the known results or defer the Dream and hope it dost not dry up?
The third sip is velvet smooth with no bite and no answer to my next move How do I handle this? Is it really my time to make a move now? If I do make move do I call in all favors now? And what if the end results are disappointing? Can I still gain something if I don’t win? Is this going to be a time I reflect back proudly or embarrassed?
The fourth sip makes me reflect on other poetry which keeps me inspired and focused.
My glass is now empty and through the sips and thoughts; I have no confirmed resolution. But I’ve knowns these answers before I even formulated the situation. Opportunity rarely comes accordingly to plan
Giddy up
