Recent content by sascha

Hi folks, maybe I am some sort of outsider ;-) slightly amused at these scientistic and logicistic ways of approaching the problem of the cognitive biases aka blind spots. Don't forget that anybody who is implicitly following a scientistic line, is prey to a blind spot on principle due to the...

Thanks, phoenixthoth -- and sorry for my long pause. By 'continuous' concepts I mean those which have have absolutely no limit; in mathematics (or more especially geometry) this would for example be those where infinity does not imply a special case. This is not fulfilled in the axioms of the...

Sorry for being so slow in answering; I had some technical problems. In fact I meant my post after the one you quoted, the one after selfAdjoint. There I say "Geometry has been engulfed by algebraic analysis", which corresponds to what you tell me about the projective geometry you are...

ah, interesting. I was thinking that the point of asking the question "what is mathematics?" is to debate the nature of mathematics; otherwise one can collect definitions anywhere. On the other hand, since in your own opinion defining mathematics is pointless, and that we should discuss its...

Phoenixthoth, why does for you asking a question about the nature of a field or discipline amount to defining a term?

Maybe you remember my posting (09-28-2003 07:14 PM) some hints at the problem of the 'Cartesian split': categoreally looking at the object only 'from outside', i.e. distinguishing, observing, describing, discussing, measuring, etc.. This position inevitably ends in paradoxes that can only be...

Hi Drag! -- maybe you should state the PoE in a precise way so that I can see more clearly just what you see in it. The foundations of the current philosophies and all their constituents is indeed the problem -- also of physics these days, I think. This is what I am trying to get at on this...

The trouble with humans is that when they really think they do not totally fit models like storage or similar (this does not exclude that some never really think, but behave more like intelligent animals, where the storage model correlates indeed to some degree). Just think of the fact that you...

Concerning hope about life, to my sense Mike's concerns are reassuring. Wherever people stop wondering and prefer jumping to conclusions, things go awry -- even if that sometimes takes a long time. In what worries Mike, I am especially disgusted by the work of contemporary economists getting...

The uncertainty of the quantum approach stems from wanting to make absolute the act of measuring. But measuring can never be an absolute, because it always implies comparing the thing to be measured with something else, alien to it. This generates the measurement problem of the quantum approach...

The uncertainty of the quantum approach stems from wanting to make absolute the act of measuring. But measuring can never be an absolute, because it always implies comparing the thing to be measured with something else, alien to it. This generates the measurement problem of the quantum approach...

Hi pelastration, in what you ask (which is typical for many people these days), you mix up the material conditions for setting up a theory with the content that is systematically necessary for setting up that theory. It is obvious that I must exist for doing that, but it is not a content that...

Hi Dirk, So now I looked at your 8 pages. But the troubles I mentioned are not done with there. Your axiom seems to be "The initial membrane is almost infinite[ly] elastic and unbreakable". But, as already the Schloastics knew, setting out from a fallacious premiss allows to deduce, given...

Hi Dirk, first I must say that I did not get through to your website: technically something does not work. But this is maybe not really a problem. After all, there are lots of other websites on this line of thought you propose. Contrary to you, I do not think the crucial problem is solved by...

Hi laserblue, Dynamical systems theory and complexity theory is an advanced complex of scientific knowledge where the state of the art is being accumulated and intermeshed. Iberall was part of this complex. There certainly is some potential of transdisciplinarity in this approach. But it cannot...