Meno #2

Meno's argument is that how do you know what to look for?

"How will you look for it, Socrates, when you do not know at all where it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it, how will you know that it is the thing you did not know?"

The Fire in the Equations #3

Problems we encounter in order to find objective truth

Is there a way to look at the universe free from bias?

Where is fancy bred? Where do points of view and opinions come from.
Everything we have looked at is affected by our point of view.

Gödel, Escher, Bach #9

Andrew Wyles and Fermats Last Theorem

How our minds work: Sometimes out of the blue we have a moment in which something clicks and we discover something.

We can also see it like the figure and the background (Art). That is what Andrew had to do in order to come up with the answer. Look where he hadn't really looked before, and see it from another perspective.

Meta-Dialogue: mar 14

Origins of the universe:

• The Fire in the Equations
• GEB
• Ascent of Man
• The Copernican Revolution

What is the essence of human beings? (identity)

• GEB
• Meno
• Ascent of Man

What makes us more human? What makes me be me?

We are always changing. Is change part of us?

We have been able t o interpret the universe throughout our senses. (Bronowski, Copernican)
but our senses  also limit us (Fire in the Equations).
You can see this clearly in The Copernican Revolution . Our senses told us something, but at the end they were wrong. (Ptolomy)

Our senses give us theories.
If we take our spectacles as theory, we see everything through that theory.
There are several options of thing we could do with our spectacles:

• We can change our glasses.
• We can modify our glasses. 
• We can put on many glasses at the same time. 
• We can wear no glasses. 

We also have many different perspectives: a kid, adult, cubist (Fire).
The cubist is like having many glasses on at the same time. We have many different ways of seeing things.

Even if we  do millions of experiments, each result can be totally different. (Popper).
We will never know with certainty if a theory is correct or not.

Meno

In the dialogue they are trying to describe virtue without using virtue to describe it.

Socrates gives Meno advice on how to have a dialogue, which Meno doesn't follow.

"If the souls are truth.."  would this imply that we are never wrong?

Socrates says that we have eternal souls that know everything about the world. Each time a soul is reborn, it has to recollect all of his thoughts / past learnings.
So we rediscover everything.

Gödel, Escher, Bach #8

Nozick: The Closest Continuer Theory

When we have two identical copies of ourselves and we disappear, who is our closest continuer?

I think that what makes us who we are and what makes us different than others are our experiences.
We have a culture in ourselves. We change with each experience we have, every moment.

We also change a little bit with every person, depending on our relationship with them (couple, friends, parents)

The Copernican Revolution

Why did it take so long for the heliocentric system to be adapted?

• For the logical reasons that created the other system. 
• Religion. Man kind had to be the center of everything. 
• The perfection of circles. 
• It was a complete system (for everything that we can perceive). 
• People tend to attach themselves very much to what they think it truth. 

Theory predicts. Once you have a theory, you have some basic assumptions in order to continue your inquiry into that theory.
Once you adopt a theory, you start relating everything to that theory. But this might be a contradiction because theory is based on assumptions.

The conception of the universe is itself the product of a series of investigations that the two-sphere universe made possible.