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Originally Posted by <<>> The world of ideas, even more, the history of ideas, is one of the most interesting studies of all. Having read as many philosophers and philosophies that I have, I could never tell what tendency there will be in 10 years. Certainly it is now since the 90s a period of crisis. Will the differences between analytic and continental philosophers dissapear? Will there be a new ground-braking movement? Will we ever manage to eliminate philosophical conditioning (that is, the lagacy of greats is always in us) and at least develop metaphysics without the influence of Heidegger's Hermeneutics, Sartre's existentialism, Husserl's Phenomenology...? I believe we won't, until we get rid of the dominance of a wrong conception of capitalism. |
I agree with you Guille, philosophy and all of modern intellectualism is in a crises, and I would say it started in the late sixties and seventies. Will we solve our problems? Yes, a resounding yes, because we are being forced to by global circumstances in most all of the critical fields, especially economics and philosophy. Will we get past the last part of your above paragraph? Yes, of course we will, but we are going to have to realize we need TOE's in all the critical fields of life's important systems. We need interdisciplinary integration in the worst of ways. That was my reason for mentioning equilibrium. Most are unaware how important a change that's taken place in most disciplines with the Bayes-Nash Equilibriums, and their newest refinements. Many have compared Nash's achievements with that of DNA, and I think it more important, it's just most are unaware of its varried interdisciplinary applications for integrations and new understandings.
Just as an example, few realize that Boolean and Bayesian machine logic, used not only by Google, but also most of the capitalist financial world is surpassing and usurping human logic on a global scale. Just look reasonably at the situation. An item costs ten cents in China and ten dollars in the U.S. There's something wrong here. The greatest dis-equilibrium in world history is taking place, with computer trades pushing the corporations, at the expense of humans' general welfare. The centropic issue we must awake to is the irrational predictions which exist in Bayes-Nash equilibriums, that create real dis-equilibriums, the world now truly faces. I think the entire world, except for a few contrarian economists, is asleep on this one. They must be awakened by inventing TOE's anywhere, in any field, to attract attention to the world's true problems. Nash won the Nobel prize for his work in the fifties in 1995 - better late than never.
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Another of my favorite philosophers is J.M.Keynes [a true genius in probability logic, as were Boole, Bayes and Nash]
BTW, Huygens was Liebniz's professor and Newton's mentor.