tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post7106520998054273822..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: What Will Humans Do?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-24590611622038018672016-02-18T06:10:28.684-05:002016-02-18T06:10:28.684-05:00We are hard wired to contribute toward the good of...We are hard wired to contribute toward the good of the tribe. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11018306000410021518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-79296756111023694992016-02-18T06:10:22.056-05:002016-02-18T06:10:22.056-05:00We are hard wired to contribute toward the good of...We are hard wired to contribute toward the good of the tribe. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11018306000410021518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-47321577688678648822016-02-16T14:13:07.633-05:002016-02-16T14:13:07.633-05:00"People like working. Working is a necessary..."People like working. Working is a necessary condition for happiness." <br /><br />They are both false only if thought of as universal concepts. Like any other human emotion or attitude, happiness and liking something are individually determined and dependent on individual experiences. I've liked some jobs better than others for several disparate reasons. I've been happy at work and not so. I no longer work and I'm really happy about that. Work is often the act of making money for someone else. In my limited experience those whose work provides them their own wealth, more so than just income, are often happy to be at work. Or to be doing something that they call work while others work to provide them their wealth.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971442888151627894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-51472083118143315482016-02-16T10:18:02.996-05:002016-02-16T10:18:02.996-05:00Who is responsible for the strange notions we have...Who is responsible for the strange notions we have about human beings relationship with work? <br /><br />People like working. <br />Working is a necessary condition for happiness. <br /><br />Both are false. Are they a false consciousness imposed by the capital class? Or are they reinforced by the Classical idea that the essence of humanity is his productive capacity?Thornton Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402495641975262697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-49022444015618544902016-02-15T21:33:41.058-05:002016-02-15T21:33:41.058-05:00Of course the yes/no dichotomy also reflects back ...Of course the yes/no dichotomy also reflects back on the singularity claims of AI. One might read Berkeley's <i>Querist</i> or Tucker's <i>Reflections</i> with all their 0s and 1s as precursors of computer programmes.Sandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75467080873694274652016-02-15T13:18:29.652-05:002016-02-15T13:18:29.652-05:00Another problem with elenchus in its pure "ye...Another problem with elenchus in its pure "yes/no" version is that it assumes,well, Aristotelian logic, which argues that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time. That is the "contradiction" that is sought, ah ha!<br /><br />However, competing logic systems, such as Brouwer's intuitionism, does allow for such apparently contradictory statements, and whole versions of mathematics have been constructed that allow for such intuitionism (there are various versions of such constructivist math). These tend not to be too popular among most mathematicians, not because they fundamentally reject the Brouweer (and related) arguments, but because such a view rules out proofs by contradiction, which are some of the most elegant and pleasing of proofs in mathematics. The alternative ways to prove some of most favored and deeply believed in theorems to proof by contradiction tend to be ugly and long constructions. So it is largely a matter of aesthetics why so many mathematicians stick to Aristotle, not a matter of deep ontological belief.<br /><br />Barkley Rosserrosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com