[_] HP Labs Bristol Science Lecture
Raymond Brooks
ray at conscious.co.uk
Fri Sep 1 10:40:42 BST 2006
Tim Beadle wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:
>> Not the philosophy I've been reading... not even Wittgenstein. But
>> then I'm
>> not particularly well-read :)
>
> Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance? Pirsig's
> alter ego, Phaedrus, was a science prodigy (undergarduate at 15 years
> old), but he finds that the nature of scientific enquiry (as alluded
> to by Alan earlier in this thread) is to actually lead you further
> from, not closer to "the truth". Hence he goes a bit mad, has electric
> shock therapy, and winds up doing philosophy instead.
>
> And I'm only about half way through the book...
>
> Tim
>
earth shattering in the good sense. one of my all time favourite books.
rx
> On 31/08/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:
>> Not the philosophy I've been reading... not even Wittgenstein. But
>> then I'm
>> not particularly well-read :)
>
> Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance? Pirsig's
> alter ego, Phaedrus, was a science prodigy (undergarduate at 15 years
> old), but he finds that the nature of scientific enquiry (as alluded
> to by Alan earlier in this thread) is to actually lead you further
> from, not closer to "the truth". Hence he goes a bit mad, has electric
> shock therapy, and winds up doing philosophy instead.
>
> And I'm only about half way through the book...
>
> Tim
>
earth shattering in the good sense. one of my all time favourite books.
rx