[lbo-talk] Women and Chess: Deep Blue Weighs In

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Sat May 6 18:23:48 PDT 2006


At around 6/5/06 11:47 am, Chris Doss wrote:
> That was always one of my favorite Heidegger quotes.
> Sometimes I really regret not finishing my
> dissertation on him.
>
> --- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> Or perhaps I am just stretching my interpretation to
> put
> Heidegger's words in Turing's mouth: Science does not
> think. (Nor do
> human beings, it seems!)
>

Just as Nietzsche's "God is Dead", that's one statement that (though less popular) is much-maligned. It is also one of my favourites from old H. More so than in the case of Nietzsche's statement (since his [primary?] interest does in fact often seem to be controversy), any reading of Heidegger's requires reading further (for very shortly after, Heidegger makes it clear that he does not make that statement to imply disrespect towards Science or scientists).

[MPug please do not forward to Cooper as endorsement of an anti-Semite! I am no Yoshie!!! I can barely deal with the flames on LBO!] ;-)

--ravi

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