Philosophy Thursday!

[Darrin]

this is reductionism. I tend to stay away from reductionism. I like to think that there is something more in the big picture rather than just x and y neurons. that is my opinion tho.

here is a good read on language of thought

http://books.google.com/books?id=ltv...um=4#PPA172,M1

map theory is one i tend to believe in.

I'm just being introduced to Map Theory in the Spurstalk jungle.

I find the tone of this work to be haughty, but the logic sound. If I understand this, thought is as ubiquitous and perpetual as the map. This is a way to express the theory that personality, experience, and interpretation complete the raw data of new experience. Correct?

Whereas the arabic system in finite in its terms, no matter how incalcuable to the human using the tool, the map is infinite in its conclusions and the data described.

If we can teach a computer to read a map, tell us its favorite part, and its needed information--to visualize, like a bird or a man--they would reach a new level of sentience and we could become god.

Language is a map.

I like this theory (the 2 1/2 pages I read of the 173 available of the 293 contained in this book).

[Darrin]

... thanks for not responding at all to what I said

Yes, the locus is creation. Without creation we cannot achieve anything we will to do. However, that is not what I reduce everything to in your argument. It just seems to me that unlocking that certain device and how it works would answer your question in more than an abstraction.

[Darrin]

1) Favorite philosophers?

2) Which is better to have... truth or happiness?

3) How do our thoughts translate to physical action? Do you believe in mind/body duality, or some other mechanism?

Bump this thread; it's thursday.

[Darrin]

I'm starting to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I relate a lot to his writing. I don't have a favorite, but I feel he communicates truth.