thanks for taking the time to elaborate. I have to admit, i dont understand it intuitively, but it is food for reflection.
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using chatgpt as the philosopher's assistant is a nice touch.
can i ask a follow up question: what sort of ethics derive naturally out of the above ?
you need to elaborate on your theory of knowledge/concept formation as I have not seen it explained anywhere else in this manner. particularly: "Absent this direct, immediate, causal, certain knowledge of our own bodies --- there is no way of knowing anything.". and "All knowledge is a recursion from the certain causal mechanism of the body: hands to tools, tools to models, models to data; from data to refinement of models." and this: "Reality is a place of necessity, not frequency. Our bodies place of causes not consequences. Our interaction with the world is a causal knowledge."
may i enquire on the sources for the above ? spinoza ?
let me know if you have any longer writeups on it, and if not i would urge you to write.
calculators can do better on arithmetic than all humans, does that make them smarter ?
the fact that the earth revolves around the sun is commonly accepted today.. but it took thousands of years of debate to arrive at that discovery.
I can bet that the average high schooler or college student in science will have a difficult time designing experiments to prove the above fact (and for this reason it took so long - as it is completely non-intuitive).
VCs are late to the AI game.. and are trying to stay relevant with these missives.. but it appears pathetic to informed readers.
knowledge which took hundreds of years to discover is imparted in capsules to students - the history of how knowledge was discovered is likely more important and interesting to learn than knowledge itself...
cases in point: heliocentric theory has a rich and dramatic history, and so does galois theory
Quote from article..
As someone who writes about science history, I have long grumbled about how misleading modern scientific papers are. I understand the need to present scientific findings in a clean, concise way, but the papers also omit all the false starts, blind alleys, broken equipment, and dumb mistakes that beset real scientific research every day. By omitting all the human stuff, the papers fail to explain how science really gets done.
However, even after the mental barrier is removed - Majority of us do not have the motivation to actualize our visions even after we know and believe that they are feasible.
I suspect that it takes a special human emotional/energy makeup to overcome enormous obstacles in pursuit of actualizing a vision. Thats what makes entrepreneurs/hustlers special.