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On 10/26/24 6:21 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 26/10/2024 08:01, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>> On 10/26/24 1:51 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On 26 Oct 2024 05:45:31 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> About the time Heidegger asked 'Why are there beings at all rather 
>>>>> than
>>>>> nothing?' in 'Introduction to Metaphysics' my head started to hurt. 
>>>>> That
>>>>> was sentence 1, chapter 1. It didn't get better from there on.
>>>>
>>>> Did he mention the Anthropic Principle at all?
>>>>
>>>> That’s a controversial one. Fred Hoyle used it to predict the 
>>>> existence of
>>>> an energetic state of the carbon atom without which heavier elements 
>>>> could
>>>> not be synthesized.
>>>
>>>
>>>    All philosophy is bullshit - including this philosophy  :-)
>>>
>>>
>> That is the reaction of 99% of those who are exposed to it.
>>
>> But it isn't.  It has tools enabling you to think in extremely 
>> different ways.
>> The problem is most people think it purports to reveal Truth, but it 
>> doesn't. It is however and interesting study of Lies.
> 
> Another advantage is familiarity with arguments and lines of reasoning. 
> If I had a penny for every time some technologist thought that he came 
> up with a brand new argument, for it only to turn out that it was 
> discussed 1000 years ago, I'd be rich!


   "Tech" kinda adheres to the "connectionist" paradigm.
   It builds on other sci-tech and practical knowledge
   in a roughly-ascending spiral. Lots of things were
   mostly re-invented - twice or thrice.