[FRIAM] [EXT] Re: A pluralistic model of the mind?

[Frank Wimberly]

Well, he elucidated the limitations of language including the concept that
words produced by one human to describe an experience cannot cause another
to have that same experience.  Not too hoity-toity.

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 11:51 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not. Wittgenstein was very cool. But he wasn't a *builder*. (... as
> far as I know. I'd be happy to be wrong.) The thing that (in my ignorant
> opinion) distinguishes people like Wittgenstein from people like Gödel, von
> Neumann, Feynman, etc. ... even Penrose with the tilings and such, is that
> they *build* things. Until the hoity-toity results from the unification
> theorem come percolating down to morons like me, I'll continue treating
> constructive proofs as better and more real/existing than classical proofs.
>
> On 12/11/19 10:44 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> > I'm surprised no one has quoted Wittgenstein:
> >
> > Wovon Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen.
>
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