One year later
Hot damn...
How strange it is that this page has been otherwise abandoned.
Even stranger that the last post here was exactly a year ago (and I just happened to stumble in here tonight) - leading off from the ambitious and failed 'Godel project,' which at some point was intended to be the beginning focus topic of this neglected piece of the interwebs.
And wham! one year later... what's been happening around here? What the hell happened to Godel? I'm sure you're wondering, and I sometimes ask myself the same thing. Well, the soul of Godel lives on, though the degree to which I talk about him here will be most-likely nil. In the end, my desire to expound on the profound importance of Godel's incompleteness theorems came to a close, due to the realization that (a) if I really want to get into some rigorous nitty-gritty in relation to Godel's work, I need to study the nitty-gritty a lot more, and (b), which is ancillary to (a), many individuals have studied the incompleteness theorems for years and still have trouble wrapping their minds around the jungle of mathematical excitement that Godel put together (or took apart, depending on how one looks at it). The original intention was to post content in this area while I was attending a university course on the subject of Godel's work. I ended up dropping the course (see posts below) and can understand on a somewhat rudimentary level, even after reading several books on the topic, the foundations, mechanisms, and significance of Godel's most important and well-known incompleteness theorems.
Nonetheless, while still holding a special place in my day-to-day reflections, Godel has taken a secondary (possibly tertiary) seat in the immediate real estate - of my brain.
I've met many other fine fellows in the last year, though. The least of which was keeper and traveler of the labyrinth, Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche. It is hard for me to type that name without instantly sinking into some combination of profound realization and utter bafflement. Nietzsche is a character that can neither be disregarded or easily understood. The force with which his philosophy speaks to issues of morality, value systems, and religious and/or idealogical dogmatism, to name a select few, is such that one's mind is almost forced to confront all that is the 'reality' of human existence.
So you could say that the aforementioned 'real estate' has acquired a new landlord for the time being.
But really, I think the point of all this is that... well, there are a couple points I want to make here, even if nobody will ever read this and I'm merely affirming to myself.
I typically tend to feed on knowledge in relation to a subject I'm interested in just long enough to understand the central theme(s) of the subject, and by then something else of interest has come my way and I continue feeding on that subject until something else comes along. I assume that many people do this, what with our media-enhanced attention spans - some just continue down one specialized area while others take samples here and there. My intellectual tendencies probably fall somewhere in the middle of these poles - I sample, gain at least a high-level understanding, sample another, gain a high level understanding, and so on; though I always revisit said 'samples' and thus over time gain more focused understanding, just not as quickly as I might if I dedicate my appetite to a more narrow base of subjects. So, point 1: the subjects covered here may not always be of a consistent theme, but over time many subjects will be revisited.
Point 2: I can't say either way whether I'll post anything else here again. Right now I feel like writing - tomorrow I may not. Same goes for the day after, and all subsequent days. No strings attached. I'll write when I do and when I won't write, I won't write. Who knows, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and by the end of the day there will be a smattering of new editorial hoo-ha to feed the electricity flowing from my brain to my fingertips.
Until then, if then.
Cheers
How strange it is that this page has been otherwise abandoned.
Even stranger that the last post here was exactly a year ago (and I just happened to stumble in here tonight) - leading off from the ambitious and failed 'Godel project,' which at some point was intended to be the beginning focus topic of this neglected piece of the interwebs.
And wham! one year later... what's been happening around here? What the hell happened to Godel? I'm sure you're wondering, and I sometimes ask myself the same thing. Well, the soul of Godel lives on, though the degree to which I talk about him here will be most-likely nil. In the end, my desire to expound on the profound importance of Godel's incompleteness theorems came to a close, due to the realization that (a) if I really want to get into some rigorous nitty-gritty in relation to Godel's work, I need to study the nitty-gritty a lot more, and (b), which is ancillary to (a), many individuals have studied the incompleteness theorems for years and still have trouble wrapping their minds around the jungle of mathematical excitement that Godel put together (or took apart, depending on how one looks at it). The original intention was to post content in this area while I was attending a university course on the subject of Godel's work. I ended up dropping the course (see posts below) and can understand on a somewhat rudimentary level, even after reading several books on the topic, the foundations, mechanisms, and significance of Godel's most important and well-known incompleteness theorems.
Nonetheless, while still holding a special place in my day-to-day reflections, Godel has taken a secondary (possibly tertiary) seat in the immediate real estate - of my brain.
I've met many other fine fellows in the last year, though. The least of which was keeper and traveler of the labyrinth, Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche. It is hard for me to type that name without instantly sinking into some combination of profound realization and utter bafflement. Nietzsche is a character that can neither be disregarded or easily understood. The force with which his philosophy speaks to issues of morality, value systems, and religious and/or idealogical dogmatism, to name a select few, is such that one's mind is almost forced to confront all that is the 'reality' of human existence.
So you could say that the aforementioned 'real estate' has acquired a new landlord for the time being.
But really, I think the point of all this is that... well, there are a couple points I want to make here, even if nobody will ever read this and I'm merely affirming to myself.
I typically tend to feed on knowledge in relation to a subject I'm interested in just long enough to understand the central theme(s) of the subject, and by then something else of interest has come my way and I continue feeding on that subject until something else comes along. I assume that many people do this, what with our media-enhanced attention spans - some just continue down one specialized area while others take samples here and there. My intellectual tendencies probably fall somewhere in the middle of these poles - I sample, gain at least a high-level understanding, sample another, gain a high level understanding, and so on; though I always revisit said 'samples' and thus over time gain more focused understanding, just not as quickly as I might if I dedicate my appetite to a more narrow base of subjects. So, point 1: the subjects covered here may not always be of a consistent theme, but over time many subjects will be revisited.
Point 2: I can't say either way whether I'll post anything else here again. Right now I feel like writing - tomorrow I may not. Same goes for the day after, and all subsequent days. No strings attached. I'll write when I do and when I won't write, I won't write. Who knows, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and by the end of the day there will be a smattering of new editorial hoo-ha to feed the electricity flowing from my brain to my fingertips.
Until then, if then.
Cheers
posted by TheZenFly at 5/11/2007
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