Re: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

Spinoza, a Dutch contemporary of Leibniz, argued as well in his book "Ethics" that it is the lack of knowledge & awareness that helps to create the illusion of freedom:"Experience teaches us no less clearly than reason, that men believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their

Re: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

I think Spaniards think Spinoza was a Spanish Jew (Espinoza). I realize this could probably be resolved to my satisfaction by Wikipedia. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 6:50 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Spinoza, a Dutch

Re: [FRIAM] solving mazes

Jamis Buck is very interested in mazes. He even wrote a book about it named "Mazes for programmers"https://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/It contains algorithms for generating and solving mazeshttps://pragprog.com/titles/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers/-J. Original message From: cody dood

Re: [FRIAM] solving mazes

Okay Nick, So you draw the maze as a graph where the nodes of the graph are positions in the maze that can be occupied, and the edges of the graph are one step open paths between adjacent positions. Easy to draw on graph paper, here is a site which generates graph paper pdfs for printing: https:/

Re: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

Baruch ("blessed in Hebrew) de Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632. His grandfather, Abraham, was a refugee from the Inquisition in Portugal. My mother helped edit a biography of Spinoza written by Abraham Wolfson, published in 1932 by Modern Classics Publishers. (I have a copy dedicated to my

Re: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

Oh this Spinoza biography looks like an interesting book. If I would have a time machine, then Darwin, Pascal and Spinoza would be on the list of persons I would like to visit, although I do not understand French. Gauss, Goethe, Humboldt and Leibniz too.Who would be on your list? George Washingt

Re: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

I would have to research my preferred choices--all women :) Hannah Arendt and Mary Wollstonecraft come immediately to mind. On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:48 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Oh this Spinoza biography looks like an interesting book. If I would have > a time machine, then Darwin, Pascal and S

[FRIAM] Watching a Moose solve a Maze Re: solving mazes

Late September 2009, a young M0ose (Cody Smith) walked into the Santa Fe Complex. He approached me and said he heard about the place and wanted to help contribute. He showed me some of his computational sketches on his laptop. One that caught my eye was his Javascript breadth-first maze solver:

Re: [FRIAM] Watching a Moose solve a Maze Re: solving mazes

I used to give this problem to my graphics students. Here’s one 2D version https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fTNJb4hhgR-6LySQspgM9k-J27KwuLpl?usp=sharing It will generate a new maze each time it’s reru