Monthly Archives: June 2015

Reductionism

The video above shows Myrmegraph, a screen-based artwork by Scott Snibbe. The picture, by Victor Juhasz, is from The Mind’s I, a book by D. Hofstadter and D. Dennett. From Snibbe’s page: As you move the mouse over Myrmegraph’s screen, you release a … Continue reading

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Weyl and Huxley on the abstract and the concrete

Important though the general concepts and propositions may be with which the modern industrious passion for axiomatizing and generalizing has presented us, . . . I am convinced that the special problems in all their complexity constitute the stock and … Continue reading

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