Is there a descent-of-influence map of European philosophers and scientists starting with say Descartes and Galileo as root nodes? A way to compute a sort of Erdos number of historical idea evolution?
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I didn’t know this data existed, but I have no idea how to query this
Can I for instance find a trace between Leibniz and Bergson somehow, via explicit influence path?
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you could...you know..read their books? :)
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That’s crazy talk. Nobody’s got time for that
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haha - knowledge compression! Did you ever read Schmidhuber's kind of grandiose theory of all the things arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
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