Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Machines
1. The age of machines, modernity, is coming to an end.
2. The world is not a machine; not even like a machine.
3. The world is large, far exceeding anyone’s grasp.
4. We are not machines. No living organism is a machine.
5. The world is not a set: there are strict limits to formalisation.
6. Organisms constantly create meaning by engaging the world.
7. To engage the world is to solve the problem of relevance.
8 To solve the problem of relevance is to formalise the world.
9. Everything that makes sense, makes sense to someone.
10. There is no meaning without life, without self-preservation.
11. There is no meaning without death, without suffering.
12. To be a true realist means to acknowledge all of the above.
1. The age of machines, modernity, is coming to an end.
2. The world is not a machine; not even like a machine.
3. The world is large, far exceeding anyone’s grasp.
4. We are not machines. No living organism is a machine.
5. The world is not a set: there are strict limits to formalisation.
6. Organisms constantly create meaning by engaging the world.
7. To engage the world is to solve the problem of relevance.
8 To solve the problem of relevance is to formalise the world.
9. Everything that makes sense, makes sense to someone.
10. There is no meaning without life, without self-preservation.
11. There is no meaning without death, without suffering.
12. To be a true realist means to acknowledge all of the above.
Instructions:
Print out and nail to any university door near you.
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The authors acknowledge funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Project ID: 62581), and thank Prof. Tarja Knuuttila, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, for hosting the project, of which this book is a central part.
Disclaimer: everything we write and present here is our own responsibility. All mistakes are ours, and not the funders’ or our hosts’.
Disclaimer: everything we write and present here is our own responsibility. All mistakes are ours, and not the funders’ or our hosts’.
