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A Galilean Dialogue - continued

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Rajesh B.R has this answer for the query posed by Salviati in A Galilean Dialogue.
Here is the remaining part of the dialogue
Had we “decoded” nature using a different set of abstractions, right from the very beginning of the development of scientific thought, what would have been science and technology like today? Or, were there civilizations […]

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A Galilean Dialogue

March 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

GEB is recommended reading if you want a book which you can finish in maybe a lifetime or two.
Here is a passage:

To show why order versus chaos is such a subtle and significant issue, and to tie it in with questions of location and reveleation of meaning, I would like to quote a beautiful […]

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