don_quixote
Trent End
fuck me this one is awesome. i have heard horror stories about belgian colonialism before.
yehfuck me this one is awesome. i have heard horror stories about belgian colonialism before.
Of course, as Lichtenberg will tell you, the cogito doesn't make clear what the 'I' is so to speak. It doesn't guarantee an individual with a history or even anything outside of immediate experience. I'm guessing that must be the 'I' that Greenspan doubted.Surely taking logical positivism to the extreme extent of saying "How can I even be sure I exist?" is demolished by "cogito ergo sum", isn't it? In other words, how can something that doesn't exist have any subjective experience, such as pondering the problem of its own existence?
Goint to watch the second one in a bit, just got a couple of beers cooling in the fridge...
Edit: bugger, we're onto the third one already, aren't we - gonna watch 2 and 3 tonight then, I reckon.
One thing that gets to me about the latest installment, and it was also touched on in the second, is how he states we are more and more mechanistic, machine like, computer like. Though isn't it a bit self-fulfilling in a way? We created these machines, with our own cold hard logic, especially the logic of those who created computers. Therefore isn't more of a case of the machines being created in our image?
Interestingly just discussing the last episode with colleagues, they didn't get that it was a critique of evolutionary biology.
Evolutionary psychology, surely? I don't think he has a beef with evolution per se...
This is probably me being dim, but what does the mayhem in Rwanda and the Congo have to do with the idea that the machines are taking over? Is Curtis saying that it was partly a product of taking a mechanistic view of the world or am I just missing the point?