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By the same argument, it's mathematics because John Conway was a mathematician, and it's physics because Ulam and Von Neumann were physicists.
by gnfargbl 8mo ago
By the same argument, it's mathematics because John Conway was a mathematician, and it's physics because Ulam and Von Neumann were physicists.
- psychoslave 8mo agoCome on, everybody knows it's philosophers all the way down. It's even in the title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... https://xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia https://xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2013/projects2013/cs224w-026-final.pdf https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2013/projects2013/cs2...
- KineticLensman 8mo agoActually, the bottom layer from which God created the cosmos was originally Computer Science. Where else do you think all the chaos came from?
- gnfargbl 8mo agoAnd that's my point; it's okay to create new names for sub-disciplines, as Wolfram is doing here. Because that's what we have been doing since the days of Aristotle.
- ontouchstart 8mo agoAristotle is the founder of biology: https://youtu.be/kz7DfbOuvOM https://youtu.be/kz7DfbOuvOM
- JadeNB 8mo agoI've never understood why we first become masters of science only to become doctors of philosophy ....
- MarkusQ 8mo agoBecause Philosophy need serious medical attention?
- ontouchstart 8mo agoThese are computer scientists: https://youtu.be/wQbFkAkThGk https://youtu.be/wQbFkAkThGk
- mathgradthrow 8mo agoVon Neumann was a mathematician, thank you very much.