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>> "When modern science swept away this dualistic symbolic schema, Europeans came to see themselves as inhabitants of a Euclidean void: we lived on a planet tha
by cristianpascu 11y ago
>> "When modern science swept away this dualistic symbolic schema, Europeans came to see themselves as inhabitants of a Euclidean void: we lived on a planet that orbited an insignificant star in potentially infinite space."
Such a gross misunderstanding of late antiquity/medieval cosmology.
"As an admirer of co-ordinate geometry, I like Tononi’s concept; at the same time, I don’t accept information theory as a bridge to subjectivity."
In my master thesis on consciousness, I dealt with Tononi's thesis and, in spite of the publicity he gets, I too find his theory to be bogus. It's like saying Maxwell's equations are light. Or, put differently, it's like saying a computer is information because it processes/produces information.
- kawera 11y agoIs it really a gross misunderstanding or just a simplification? Keep in mind that aeon.co cater to an intelligent and well read crowd but it's not a highbrow academic publication by any means.
- cristianpascu 11y agoMisunderstanding. I believe we have enough reasons to think that ancient/medieval folks were smart enough to NOT believe gods live on the Moon.
- jerf 11y ago"It's like saying Maxwell's equations are light. Or, put differently, it's like saying a computer is information because it processes/produces information." Sounds like you may be reaching for map/territory distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation