[FRIAM] [EXT] Re: A pluralistic model of the mind?
Frank Wimberly
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Wed Dec 11 23:08:56 EST 2019
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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