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I'm afraid this seems all wrong to me. First of all: If that's your idea of "strong evidence" then there are a bunch of other things that seem preposterous to
by gjm11 7y ago
I'm afraid this seems all wrong to me.
First of all: If that's your idea of "strong evidence" then there are a bunch of other things that seem preposterous to me but have "strong evidence" for them. For instance: Mathematicians have found it very useful to build mathematics on top of set theory; that is, to think of numbers (and everything else) in terms of structures of things belonging to other things. This is "strong evidence" that the notion of belonging-to is fundamental, and therefore that capitalism is the One True Economic System. (This absolutely honestly seems to me no more far-fetched than your argument here.)
Second: so far as I can see, even if we take the argument of the OP seriously, there is absolutely no reason to say that the things in these "dynamic and independent structures" are being and nothing. As I said above, they could just as well be any two things. Horizontal and vertical. Penn and Teller. Red and blue. But taking them to be "being and nothing" is the only thing that really connects this to Hegel at all.
Of course anyone's welcome to see parallels to anything anywhere. If the Riemann zeta function makes you think of Hegel, fair enough. It might make someone else think of Beethoven, or civil engineering. The only thing I take any exception to here is the idea that this somehow indicates that there's something specially insightful in Hegel rather than that human brains are good at spotting patterns, including patterns that aren't really there.