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June 11, 2004
Truth or meaning
Rob explained that Penrose, in Shadows of the Mind, argues we need a non-computational model to understand consciousness. Rob has also been reading Betrand Russell, telling me Russell's investigation of language seems a lot more tractable than Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
I find Wittgenstein about as tractable as Joyce.
Rob wants to understand Truth from a philosophical point of view. He told me aims at placing discussions of Truth in Media in an appropriate context. Before he had to go to a meeting, he admitted that learning all the background may not prove useful in lots of cases. Most professional mathematicians do not lie awake at night worrying about Goedel's incompleteness theorem. They just get on with their work.
Jacqueline has taken the boys to Spain on vacation. (Where she was mugged! Horrible.) Lonely male idealists spend too much time thinking about things. Elvis had a point there.
Posted by Mark at June 11, 2004 02:15 PM