Time is a funny thing, and the perspectives that you can get if you shift time around are extraordinarily valuable. Take a simple example: not long ago it was common to engage in building things that would take more than one generation to finish - giant houses, cathedrals and organizations. Today we barely engage in … Fortsätt läsa What is your cathedral?
Kategori: Philosophy of thinking
Computational vs Biological Thinking (Man / Machine XII)
Our study of thinking has so far been characterised by a need to formalize thinking. Ever since Boole's "Laws of Thought" the underlying assumption and metaphor for thinking has been mathematical or physical - even mechanical and always binary. Logic has been elevated to the position of pure thought, and we have even succumbed to thinking that is … Fortsätt läsa Computational vs Biological Thinking (Man / Machine XII)