Sounds like me! I agree with the above (do I have another option?), but yes, the "verfall" in "think"ing and the alienation brought about by technology (technical manipulation) .... that stuff ... the stuff about us being a sign to what we are not thinking, which is receding from us ... sort of what Morris Kline, to misappropriate his terminology and use it out of context, wrote of as a move from explanation to description ... I have always been intrigued by what I think of as the Heidegger-Gödel-Penrose triangle (sorry Wittgenstein, its not a square). If I were his thesis advisor, I would advice young H to spend less time on Nietzsche, more time on Kierkegaard and Hilbert. ;-)
In poking around the Internets, looking for a Hilbert-Heidegger connection of any sort, I found this paper that at least Ian, Chuck G and Jerry will find amusing:
http://tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/23/7-8/39.pdf
For one thing, it informed me of a Heidegger - Winograd connection that I never knew of (and wish I had known about during my arguments in the AI seminars in grad school):
Winograd, Terry (1989), "Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems" Conference on Applied Heidegger, Berkeley, September, 1989.
There is some very interesting stuff along that line that I was also entirely unaware of. Check this one out:
http://cid.nada.kth.se/en/HeideggerianAI.pdf Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian
And: http://bit.ly/CUWf
Oh man... there is some neat connections here from Heidegger to Russell and Quine... I need more time. Chuck, please read, research and summarise, forthwith! ;-)
--ravi
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