A Laundry List
by MikeGeneI'll be super-duper busy over the next week, so let me post a public reminder to myself of the laundry list of essays I'd like to finish before the summer is over.
1. Raise the "intriguing possibility" as promised to TP. __X__
2. Pick up where I left off here. _____
3. Evidence that supports a front-loading prediction. _____
4. Evidence that supports another front-loading prediction. _____
5. Begin fleshing out an answer to this question about front-loading. ____
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Hi Mike,
I'm honored to be at the top of the TO-DO list and thank you for taking the time to put my blog on the blog roll.
Don't worry about hurrying on my account, it helps my chatactor building when I am forced to be patient.
Thanks Again
Comment by Thought Provoker — July 22, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Hi TP,
It will probably be a week-or-so (unless I can peck together pieces duing the nights of next week). I suppose I had the time today to put it together, but I'm not feeling well today. BTW, it is a stand-alone topic, but I suspect you'll see the connections.
Comment by MikeGene — July 22, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Building towards what? A goal of some sort!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Comment by Doug — July 23, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Hi Doug,
You asked…
To me, life is a continuing process of learning and improving. Followed by, and in concert with, passing knowledge on to others.
Comment by Thought Provoker — July 23, 2007 @ 5:39 pm
July 24th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
An insightful paper by two philosophers regarding design and the implications that follow.
http://www.asa3.org/asa/PSCF/2004/PSCF12-04Madden.pdf
I've been following this debate for awhile but have never stumbled across either James Madden or Mark Discher.
Comment by Doug — July 24, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
July 24th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
But then it must be much more than that. Life just can't be learning, because then the terms would be identical and redundant. If life involves learning then there must be something to be known (or that can be known). And if learning in life involves improving (or the possibility of improvement) then that thing 'to be known' must be immutable, a static reference point towards which one can build…..through learning.
TP, you're sounding like a theist.
Comment by Doug — July 24, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
July 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
If the reference point, or that which can possibly be known through learning, wasn't static then our knowledge would build upon nothing. We would build and build towards a goal that either never really existed or randomly moved. Whatever we then passed on to others might ultimately be a confusing, serpentine path to a dead end…. probably best to have not passed on at all – since in the end it yielded yet one of many errant routes to some 'to be known' that either doesn't exist or randomly changes.
Comment by Doug — July 24, 2007 @ 1:06 pm