There are more people that catch fly balls than develop theories of physical
information. I don't believe a well-funded liberal culture will change that.
Maybe in a hundred or a thousand years if we are a reconfigurable species, a
large part of the population will spend their days experiencing and
manipulating physical phenomenon as first class thing using an extended nervous
system. But as it is, the inputs are from a narrow range of temperatures &
pressures and a tiny window of electromagnetic radiation. And cognitively,
the short term workspace of a human is small and slow compared to even a simple
computer.
On 4/30/19, 5:08 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-boun...@redfish.com on
behalf of geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
You're trolling me, aren't you? 8^) I can't help myself, though.
It's not an exclusive or you've laid out. Some of us will have fast memory
that works well in common sense space and time. Some of us will have DSPs that
work well in other conceptions (I'm thinking of Hawking, here). Etc. And while
it's plausible that we stumble on innovative models (ways to think) that no
human or animal could ever have had the means for programming their DSP,
*eventually* [†] some clique of the population will develop DSPs for that way
of thinking.
I'm blind to the stumbling block you see, I guess.
[†] Assuming we don't kill ourselves, of course.
On 4/30/19 3:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Either spacetime works in a surprising way and commonsense intuition is
just wrong -- to cling to a familiar way of knowing amounts to taking the blue
pill -- settling for crude satisficing heuristics to muddle through as a
bag-of-water in what appears to be a 3D space. Or we are totally driven and
our experiments are fate. In one case humans can't engage their
special-purpose DSPs (so to speak) and fast thinking is useless -- we aren't
equipped to function efficiently in that alien world. In the latter case, it
just doesn't matter what we calculate. I think the potential for cognitive
dissonance here is pretty clear.
--
☣ uǝlƃ
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