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David Chapman
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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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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. 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. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 20 Sep 2018
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          Wow, that's super interesting talk. I didn't know about him and his approach. Makes a lot of sense, tho I worry a bit about the big picture which might overly privilege CS ppl's way of understanding.

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        3. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 20 Sep 2018
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          That is, every specialist sees their specialty as uniquely informative about the structure of the world. Now, I think this too, but I know my perspective is limited.

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        1. Srijit Sanyal‏ @_Srijit 20 Sep 2018
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          but the "confusion" makes sense if you think of computer science as a "model" of philosophy, in the logician's sense.

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