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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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    David Chapman Retweeted John Nerst

    1️⃣ Computer science recycles key philosophical terms with similar but different meanings. This causes systematic patterns of confusion for CS people thinking about philosophy.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1042660178796142592 …

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    John Nerst @everytstudies
    Says he. It seems to me he uses an extremely narrow meaning of abstraction. Every concept is an abstraction, some more than others. Only in constructed and themselves abstract domains like computer science does this hold. https://twitter.com/JoePasqua/status/1042593448774127616 …
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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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        2️⃣ “Representation” and “reference” are other major trouble sources. In CS, each is a relationship between perfectly crisp software things; elsewhere, at least one end of the relationship is nebulous, in the world. BCS discusses in this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USF1H70bRl0&frags=pl%2Cwn …

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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        3️⃣ Mathematical logic was invented to eliminate all nebulosity; it conclusively failed. But computers are logic made flesh; as a consolation prize, we got the whole contemporary world out of logicism’s failure. Gregory Chaitin’s delightful explanation: http://arxiv.org/html/nlin/0004007 …

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      4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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        4️⃣ Hardcore rationalism makes natural sense to people with computer science backgrounds. What would the world have to be like for rationalism to be true of it? It would need to conform perfectly to some set of rules—as software does, and practically nothing else can.

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      5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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        5️⃣ Given how utterly unlike reality logic is, it’s astonishing that we were able to build devices that conform to it so precisely. But, for many decades, we did devote most of the time of the smartest people in the world, plus trillions of dollars, to the effort.

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      2. Michael Porcelli‏ @michaelporcelli 20 Sep 2018
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        Replying to @Meaningness

        You think these are instances of how science takes words, like “energy” and “power” and makes them specialized technical terms about specific quantities?

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 20 Sep 2018
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        Yes; but there’s a specific sort of confusion that it causes in the case of computer science.

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      1. Agile Hulk‏ @Agile_Hulk 20 Sep 2018
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        It frustates me to no end that Leibnitz doesn't just explain that a Monad is a monoid in the category of endofufnctors.

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      2. onnlucky 🍀‏ @onnlucky 20 Sep 2018
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        I’d say the confusion often runs entirely the other way around. Philosophy uses such weak and often bad models half the debate is hardly worth while.

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