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7 pt epidemia, 'PRAT-equation'

Posted By: higonefive
Date: Thursday, 28 December 2017, at 10:55 a.m.

In Response To: 7 pt epidemia, 'PRAT-equation' (Michael)

Thank you for your feed back. I'm a non-mathematician. That is my great leakage. I'm always looking for the vision in this game, that laughs about counting. For me, backgammon is a nice tiny little model of life. There is philosophy, hidden in it. First contingency, through the dices, as a leading concept, is involved. Contingency is a concept, developed by aristotle throuh the negation of necessity and possibility. So nothing is really necessary, nor impossible. As for postmodernity and critical theory it is the Midas-gold. But gold makes no well-fed. Contingency has to be economized. Given the difference science/philosophy, there is a part of backgammon, which can be economized through science. But given the different hard- and software of men and machines, there must be a ifferent way. Kant was the first, to put 'pure reason' in the shoes of science. Quentin Meillassoux tried to rescue this task with the postulat of the possibility of mathematization. But he postulated also only one necessary law of nature: the contingency of laws of nature himself. You can argue, that after Kant and Nietzsche, philosophy is coming to an end, and after Heidegger, who claimed not to be a philosopher for himself, this kingdom is useless. But if you look closer to phenomenology and object oriented ontologies, there is a forthcoming. Marc B. Olsen tried to give us an approach. He said, that there is a thinking outside human thinking (in the machine), but this thinking is not to copy, it is to imitate. At the same time he says, nothing is in the range of universal validity. Sometimes you have to count. Overruling a concept in analysis is also counting, but perhaps merely phenomenological, respecting our 'hardware' of thinking. The problem is: we are 'seeing' three checkers on the ace-point as dead. From a mathemtician POV, the number of freedom to move is = zero. Men in the 'zone', and so on. For some there is mathematical vision. But for most of us, it must be 'real' vision. The concepts, in a descriptive way, in a framework, might be a bridge.

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