The superiority of Oakeshott over Hayek
Is clearly recognized by Siri: When I say "Oakeshott" she always gets the name right, But when I say "Hayek"she usually puts in "Hyatt."
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
I did not know Siri was so well-read in philosophy.
ReplyDeleteMy interactions with her have been limited to telling her to "Go away" once, when I had pressed and held the home button on my iPad by mistake. She told me "Goodbye would be more polite."
The robots are already getting uppity. I fear for the future.
Try doing google image searches of first "oakeshott" and then "hayek" and tell me which is better.
ReplyDeleteWhen I typed "Heidegger" in Word Perfect, the suggested replacement is "Headgear."
ReplyDeleteI suppose his Nazism made him a good candidate for prosecution under "hat crime" legislation.