YES. So, so true. And Hegel in turn was just adapting Kant, despite calling him a “blockhead” in the preface (hilarious, can’t even imagine what 1800s German for “blockhead” is). It’s absolutely Hegelian. To make it more explicit for the HN audience:
Hegel wrote a very famous book called the “The Experience of Mind” (or, in obnoxious philosophy language, “The phenomenology of Spirit”). In it, he details how he thinks the mind is made up of successive levels of distinct programs, each of which builds on what came for it in a very specific way he calls “dialectic synthesis”. In this way he goes through all the perceived capabilities of the mind (the big four in order roughly being sensation, understanding, awareness, and reason) and ties them to specific steps in this synthetic chain.
I hope it’s obvious from that how this argument mimics GEB (which I understand as roughly “the human mind is a collection of looping programs with these characteristics”).
> which I understand as roughly “the human mind is a collection of looping programs with these characteristics”
uh ... the center of Hofstadter's worldview, which he re-enunciated later in "I am a strange loop" is almost precisely the opposite of Hegel's persepective. Hofstadter came to see the idea of "heterarchical systems" as central to creativity and, in his opinion, consciousness. These systems are precisely not what Hegel describes, with "each level building on what came before it", but instead the levels are functionally and physically entangled so that "higher level" ones can intimately and profoundly impact "lower level" ones and vice versa.
I love hacker news - I missed this a few days ago. You’re the first human I’ve talked to about these ideas I’ve been obsessing over for months, so it feels good to get some feedback!
I’ll definitely have to look more into that. I guess my conception of Hegel has room for such “looping” — Kant explicitly says that high-level Reason produces ideas that directly impact the nature of our low-level Understanding, and I sorta assumed Hegel would agree. He’s obviously much more into the Synthesis as a means-onto-itself, not to mention much more dramatic, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the last chapters of PoS made no mention of the lower faculties.
Thanks again, if you ever scroll back through your old comments and see this :). A helpful response indeed
Life in hot and humid client is definitely possible without air conditioning, but the mass migration of Americans to Florida and the southwest shows their expressed preference is to live in climate controlled homes in sunny places. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-all-conquering...
Natural gas generation never drops below ~40% period in this state, the novelty here is its losses from heat were covered to the tune of 35% of the mix last Tuesday.
PV generation maxes out at ~12GW, the bulk of our renewable energy comes from wind but it isn’t blowing this week ergo outsized natgas generation before the sun is up.
The bill imposes novel limitations on what regulations municipalities are allowed to enact/enforce. You won't find the impact of the bill in its text -- to find that, you'd need to read the municipal regulations that would be superceded. Mandatory water breaks (a paltry 10 minutes each 4 hours) are but one example.
"Rest or coffee breaks, defined as 20 minutes or less, are compensable hours worked under 29 C.F.R. 785.18, since they are regarded as being for the benefit of both the employer and the employee."
Because people are only allowed to be their job? How is the fact that they also have other passions outside of their job mean they must have been a terrible employee.
If I had a major fuckup at my job and then someone dug up how my job talked about me running a board game group at lunch at work, would you be pulling quotes about how my love of Illimat and The Crew was a sign that my company was negligent?
I mean would you say the same of S.B.F of FTX who was playing league of legends while on the clock?
If everything were running smoothly there would be no reason to look. But if mistakes are getting made while on the job, could it be because an individual is doing more than the job description?
Anyone read the Phenomenology of Spirit and notice the same ideas?