If I am honest, which I at least usually try to be, most beliefs that I have are only supported by the amount of effort I'm willing to put into the endeavor of supporting them. I can rationalize this by saying that nobody's brain, not even Einstein's, has (or had) the capacity to calculate and keep track of all the assumptions necessary to support our beliefs. I do believe this is true, even though it is more the result of my simply getting tired of or bored with trying to do so. Maybe this has a lot to do with why people have "faith", they just get tired of trying to figure it all out, and it is so much easier to accept what a large group of your peers tells you. I think true wisdom starts when one realizes those limitations.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:44 PM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick, > > Spoiler alert, there is no *how best to think*. You say random, Gary says > determined. Until you investigate the consequences of each you can't even > know whether or not you are actually developing the same model ( like with > the Church-Turing thesis). At the end of the day, deciding whether or not > the universe is determined, indeterminate, random, etc.. is decidedly > uninteresting. I try to hold 50 conflicting ontological commitments before > breakfast. Alas, it appears that we have no interest in working with the > commitments others make. In an effort to contribute to the banality I > propose 2401 or perhaps whatever number you would construct the fifth time > you follow Cantor's diagonal argument! > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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