Kant was the systematizer of Isaac Newton Physics’ implicit epistemology. The immediate discovery of Non-Euclidean geometries around 1830 and later on – at the beginning of 20th century: but Riemann conference is earlier (1854)- the discovery of Special relativity, destroyed… Read More ›
Daniel Dennet makes the point that “Darwin’s dangerous idea is that Design can emerge from mere Order via an algorithmic process that makes no use of pre-existing Mind”. Same is the idea of Turing, about unconscious, automatic, pattern formation leading… Read More ›
Mathematics is the combination of two traditions, the deductive greek science whose Idealtypus was geometry, and the manipulative algebraic techniques that Middle Age inherited from Arab science. Freeman Dyson, in the Gifford lecture “Infinite in all Directions”(1985) talks about a… Read More ›
Another take on the same topic. Popper falsificationism amounts basically to a view of the scientific process where science in its march places increasingly more stringent bounds on the possible explanations that are supported by a verification process. It is… Read More ›
The birth of modern world in the Middle Age out of perspective in painting (Greeks did not have perspective) was due to innovations in Middle Age theology. The actuality of the infinite was born from Middle Age theology. See Paolo… Read More ›
Whether an age or an individual will express itself in creative thinking or in repetitive pedantry is more a matter of desire than of intellectual power, and it is probably more the nature of their desires than of their capacities… Read More ›
“Utile erit scribi pro omnia” (Leibniz, 29 October 1675, Paris, now in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Manuskript Analysis tetragonistica, 1675, Manuskriptseite, GWLB: LH XXXV, 8, 18, Bl. 2.) A new world was born. If numbers are just like stars in the… Read More ›
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected to the shape human life has acquired in the modern world because of technology, whereby the ontology of previous Weltanschauungen has been replaced in… Read More ›
Notes about History of Western Philosophy Role of Mathematics as a model of eternal truth, against the empirical world: 52-56, 171, 785-786 (dethrone it) Intellettualized Theology of Europe as descending from Math, p56 First ideas about evolution: Anaximander, p47… Read More ›
Diverse and multifarious transitions – I don’t know why it happens: all in a sudden, unexpected change of Weltanschauung, a mutation of my brain. Only our imagination is the barrier, “Infinite in all directions”. The posts will be dedicated to… Read More ›
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