tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post5576721950556765673..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: WHAT i PLAN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-4055344547562996592021-03-12T03:52:42.358-05:002021-03-12T03:52:42.358-05:00I like that very much, if I want to post a comment...I like that very much, if I want to post a comment here, I always have to confirm: I'm not a robot. Achim Kriechel (A.K.)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-70617165904132977992021-03-12T03:51:11.218-05:002021-03-12T03:51:11.218-05:00@Warren Goldfarb
yes, you are right, I know about ...@Warren Goldfarb<br />yes, you are right, I know about Günther's correspondence with Kurt Gödel. Perhaps I expressed myself in a misleading way. Günther took science fiction stories as an opportunity to analyze the metaphysical problems implied in them more deeply. This then resulted in Esseys like:<br /><br />"The Logical Parallax" published in, Astounding Science Fiction, New York 1953, Vol. LII, No. 3, p. 123-133<br /><br />or<br /><br />"Achilles and the Tortoise" published in<br />Part 1-3: Astounding Science Fiction, New York 1954: Vol. LIII, No. 5, p. 76-88 / Vol. LIII, No. 6, p. 85-97 / Vol. LIV, No. 1, p. 80-95<br /><br />or<br /><br />"The Seetee Mind" published in<br />Startling Stories, New York 1954, Vol. 31, No. 3, p. 96-101<br /><br />As for cybernetics, I recommend you<br />"The consciousness of machines, a metaphysics of cybernetics" <br />1st edition, AGIS Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1957<br /><br />here you can find all this stuff in the internet:<br />https://www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/gg_logical-parallax.pdf<br />https://www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/achilles-tortoise.pdf<br />https://www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/seetee_part_1-4.pdf<br />Achim Kriechel (A.K.)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-39823112843422752002021-03-11T18:21:42.942-05:002021-03-11T18:21:42.942-05:00@Achim Kriechel
Gotthard Günther had a long corres...@Achim Kriechel<br />Gotthard Günther had a long correspondence with Kurt Gödel from 1954 to 1959, before Günther found employment at Champaign-Urbana. The topics are metaphysics and logic (no science fiction or cybernetics). The letters are published in Gödel's Collected Works volume IV, along with a helpful introduction by Charles Parsons, Prof. Wolff's old grad school flatmate.Warren Goldfarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679084898659169317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-45227570560272978842021-03-11T09:27:16.398-05:002021-03-11T09:27:16.398-05:00This bill is a bandaid.
It will not change anythi...This bill is a bandaid.<br /><br />It will not change anything structurally.<br /><br />The gig economy is still in place.<br /><br />The prior normal was not ok, except for those who kissed their asses into the middle upper classes and up and the oligarcs.<br /><br />The democrats want it this way… basically they tried to do the minimum they had to do.<br /><br />Corporate autocracy lives on. Has everyone forgot about the trilliosn they pumped into protecting the assets of the rich last year??<br /><br />The fact that Biden promised a 15$ min wage and didn’t do any lobbying of Manchin before covertly backstabbing the voter base says it all. Biden didn't want it, he lied because he has contempt for the middleclass and poor. Even 15 is not enough to live a dignified live.<br /><br />This is just a nice bandaid.<br /><br />What is “extraordinary”, is that anything good for Americans got through at all since the corporate masters of Biden don’t want anything substantively better to pass. A majority of the country wants the 15$ minimum, but the “adults” in congress denied it. Democracy?<br /><br />Honestly, it is confusing to see that cable news has convinced you that this bill is “extraordinary”. I guess we all need to live our comforting illusions and that's what the NYT and MSNBC sell to the professional classes. Your calling this bill "extraordinary" is what set me off; if you had even a modestly tempered view of it, I wouldn't have been.<br /><br />…mass shootings, 1/4 young adults contemplating suicide and Trumpist fascism grind on...<br />henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18269522024081776268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-30680437826864420792021-03-11T06:48:09.760-05:002021-03-11T06:48:09.760-05:00The little story with the science fiction authors ...The little story with the science fiction authors and the non-Aristotelian logic reminds me of the German philosopher Gotthard Günther who was also a big science fiction fan. Some stories (for example Stanislaw Lem's character of Ion Tychy) inspired Günther, the author of a book entitled "Attempt at a Non-Aristotelian Logic", to write numerous philosophical essays. He was also a short time in Germany after the war, editor of some American science fiction authors, such as Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, Jack Williamson, Lewis Padgett. Günther also published some articles in the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction" which later, as far as I know, were renamed "Analog" and "Startling Stories". <br /><br />Günther had immigrated to the USA in 1937 and worked there first at the Widener Library and later in the 1960s at the University of Illinois Urbana. <br /><br />He is considered to be an excellent expert on transcendental philosophy and German idealism, and in my eyes a really exciting philosopher who, long before we all talked about AI, algorithms and intelligent machines, thought very deeply about the entire problem of cybernetics.Achim Kriechel (A.K.)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-89728766773351027552021-03-10T20:07:44.001-05:002021-03-10T20:07:44.001-05:00All is painful when reading Kant's, First Crit...All is painful when reading Kant's, First Critique .The pain somewhat abates though, after reading the Prof.'s commentary on it, just as the commentary of Goldfarb on Kripke does. Good on you , Warren. As for those who, "bang upon tea-pots", at least as far as Comments on this blog go, I think we all know who bangs the loudest.jgkess@cfl.rr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-12224511762943199772021-03-10T18:33:16.472-05:002021-03-10T18:33:16.472-05:00Hello , I just wanted to tell you that how I am pl...Hello , I just wanted to tell you that how I am pleased to listen to your 4 lectures in Kant's philosophy, I statred reading the critique of pure reason 2 years ago , and then by a chance I found your lectures, now I am addicted to you Mr. Wolff . <br />Thank you so much , and stay safe , take care of yourself in this pandemic. <br />I am an Egyptian man, my name is Ahmad Zareef, and just wanted to thank you for now , and may I later have a question or argument with you about some thoughts which I am thinking of. <br />Regards <br />Ahmad Ahmad Zareefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16721060515499186977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-1917075605474490102021-03-10T14:42:38.170-05:002021-03-10T14:42:38.170-05:00Can you sneak in a post about Dr. Cornel West not ...Can you sneak in a post about Dr. Cornel West not having tenure at Harvard? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-41077585540418792142021-03-10T12:08:50.099-05:002021-03-10T12:08:50.099-05:00I'm not sure I've read any of them before,...I'm not sure I've read any of them before, so I look forward to doing so in the coming days, particularly the Kant piece. Your work helped me immensely during my first, painful read of the First Critique. Sparkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15176547513754470857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-27916882624711300052021-03-10T11:23:17.009-05:002021-03-10T11:23:17.009-05:00Good! I look forward to reading these three pieces...Good! I look forward to reading these three pieces. So far as I can remember, I didn't read them seven years ago. I'm looking forward to reading them this time.Ludwig Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145442092958521609noreply@blogger.com