The correct way to describe cognition is through physics. Mathematics is just a branch of physics. Just as philosophy is just a branch of psychology. All useful abstractions are grounded in reality.
I think that Kant, Gödel and Wittgenstein made incredible contributions, but because they were largely misunderstood, their adopters created intellectual devastation and contributed to the enduring blight of systemic philosophy and foundational thinking.
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Could you briefly comment on how Kant, Gödel and Wittgenstein were misunderstood by their adopters?
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I read Kant as a computational cognitive scientist, but his readers spawned phenomenology. I read Gödel as a theorist of formal languages, but folks thought it is about epistemology and metaphysics. I read Wittgenstein as a symbolic AI pioneer, but he caused the linguistic turn.
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