paper topic difficulty.
I found an interesting book due to my brother’s insistance that cognitive science has something to tell us. Apparently numbers are a mechanism in the brain. Go figure eh? nothing like a controversey sparker to begin a blog post.
I’m being sarcastic because i don’t think thats ever been in question. In fact, I think Kant should get the credit for inspiring this belief, because he claimed that space and time were mechanism of perception and how the human mind worked. If it weren’t for space and time, numbers wouldn’t exist.
All the same the book is not bad. It takes pot shots at the platonic view of the world, but hey who doesn’t take pot shots at platonic views every once in a while? (I’m defining pot shots as arguments against well known failures of platonic theory, like if the forms exist where are they and how do they interact with the physical world. This has been a flaw for platonic belief for many many years.) I will have more of an opinion when i finish reading it.
This is interesting…. this is added later..
I’m still not sure what i think of the book overall but i figured out that one objection i might have might not be covered in this book. He claims that fundamental arithmetic exists in the mind as creations “of” the mind. He says the evidence proves this, but what i was going to object to his argument is that quanity or the fundamental understanding of something-nothing is built within the world. I think he agrees with this. so.. no conflict yet except i’d have to read all his research and understand the human mind and how we percieve, etc. etc. etc.
March 9th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
sounds like a lot of work. btw, you should start playing d&d. maybe you could get 4F status!
March 10th, 2005 at 9:36 am
[quote:5dfed25d63]btw, you should start playing d&d. maybe you could get 4F status![/quote:5dfed25d63] That’s a cool picture of Raistlin and Caramon. Ron. (“Detached From Reality”)
March 10th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
I have no idea what Sophia and Horselover are talking about. I am going back to Kalimdor and kill some Razorbacks.
March 10th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
[quote:0055fbc89d=”WDuluoz”]I have no idea what Sophia and Horselover are talking about. I am going back to Kalimdor and kill some Razorbacks.[/quote:0055fbc89d] you would if you would’ve clicked on my link. lazy reader. lazy lazy. 😉 apparently both hlf and i play d&d
March 10th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
[quote:a6ff1f6a3f=”sophia_de_philo”] you would if you would’ve clicked on my link. lazy reader. lazy lazy. [/quote:a6ff1f6a3f] Uhmm it was sarcasim… hehe… he knows what your talking about but i think he was making a general remark about the specificity of the above article. It singles out DnD as detatching people from reality, but in average video games and arguably television and even good books detatch people from reality for a while. He made the “i am going back to kalimdor and kill some razorbacks.” statement in reference to his WoW addiction. p.s. You are getting called out this time.
March 10th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
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March 11th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Trying to bring this back to the original topic: [quote:4cbf2ed0a1] He claims that fundamental arithmetic exists in the mind as creations “of” the mind. He says the evidence proves this, but what i was going to object to his argument is that quanity or the fundamental understanding of something-nothing is built within the world. I think he agrees with this. so.. no conflict yet except i’d have to read all his research and understand the human mind and how we percieve, etc. etc. etc.[/quote:4cbf2ed0a1] Well, I got nothing, really. Way over my head. I just wanted an excuse to say: Raistlin is such a bad-ass Ron.
March 11th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
LOL. I understood the quote (probably because I’ve been talking metaphysics with D like every other night for 2 weeks or so), but I don’t know who Raistlin is! 😉