It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell
Category Archives: Philosophy
Dolphin Intelligence
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far […]
Philosophy: Murpys Law and Thomas Pynchon
Murphy’s Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel’s Theorem. — Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems capable of doing arithmetic. The theorems, proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in […]
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