Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
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Thursday, May 08, 2014
Human Mind or Fruit Fly Brain?
The physical brain may be crudely modeled on fruit fly and computer mechanics. But the principle of the historically developing mind of humanity writ large will never be made to fit into an arithmetic "base" of symbolic logic as Kurt Gödel so devastatingly proved. The well tempered contrapuntal musical development of J.S. Bach and his epigones, which is part and parcel of this uniquely human higher cognitive principle of "mind," will forever elude such crude reductionists' comprehension.
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