'Number, and Craft.'
These subject headings are the very basis of science.
Ignorantly, young people assume that science is some fact of eternal existence, or that being so in fact existential and real, that clever humans (the clever ones, at least) more or less always employed some form of it, and that we, in today's world, are so outstandingly clever and possessed of such amazing instruments, that we are the premier scientists and that this is the Age of Science.
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| Because of the subject matter in the painting, a lot of people think this is Camillo Agrippa, but it is his contemporary, Luca Pacioli, more or less the inventor of modern accounting. |
It might be the Age of Science; it is also the Age of Abject Stupidity.
There is nothing valuable about 'science.'
You see, there has always been a hint of a dispute between the thinkers of the 'Austrian Circle' and those who emerged from the very Renaissance itself. Thus, we have what all of modern academia calls 'the Zilsel Thesis' - which holds that the aristocratic layer that housed the abstract and rational purist thinkers, came together with the craft workshops in Italy and Spain and Poland and Germany, in the Renaissance, which practiced rule-of-thumb habits following basic experimentation; and then these two bodies of human endeavor when joined, led to 'science.'
...And, by contrast, we have the position enunciated by Camillo Agrippa, the world's greatest fencing master and (fencing) thinker who ever lived.
Agrippa maintained that number and space and time existed objectively, and that the combinations of number in space, and number in time, produced 'motion' and all perfect motion was beautiful, and decisive.
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| This is Spanish bespoke - the Spanish cut is quite distinct from the various Italian, as well as the closer Parisian lines. Spanish bespoke has maintained a closer tie to its Renaissance heart and roots. |
Agrippa never needed to doubt that 2 + 2 = 4 whereas Karl Popper (not actually ever a member of the Austrian Circle) spent the whole of his life doubting it and at the same time suggesting it couldn't be proven nor could it be falsified and therefore it was not a scientific thing.
Eow-kayyyy.
Agrippa lived during a time at which it was possible to 'wear swords' and thus, he composed a vast treatise on 'the wearing sword.'
Bruce Lee never needed to wear a sword. And he was aware of Agrippa and spoke about him.
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| 710bhp F8 Tributo - science or Renaissance art? |
See that kids? You don't know anything.
You watch the Hollywood movies with the little old grey or green guy who 'raises rocks with The Force,' but you cannot do that yourself and you don't even think it can be done for real.
Yeah it can.
I was hoping for a Grand Unified Field Theory, but all I got was this science.
ReplyDeleteOr as Jesse Pinkman famously said in Breaking Bad: "Yeah science, b*tch!"
“There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.”
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Too many people make the fatal mistake of believing that 'science' as we know it and as it is institutionally and socially enshrined today, is an objective and a complete self-contained system of understanding reality. It is not. It ALWAYS WAS tainted, it's very history was rooted in deep social/political warfare. And that warfare involved and included major state-level murder and theft of property and money and people's estates and so on. It never did have the lineage which included the actual BEST European thinkers - the truth and the reality is that Plutarch and Marsio Ficino and Agrippa and those types NEVER supported what was going on in the mercantile middle class 'scholar' league. Which is why you have so many logical fallacies exposed in the 'science history' wunderkinds like Karl Popper and Wittgenstein when they expound; they simply don't have the mindsets to handle 'boundary conditions' and the basic modern computing 'category labels' (registry theory) but keep on being paraded by what is essentially 'power politics' as paragons of thinking.
ReplyDeleteClearly, the much sought after 'Grand Unified Field Theory' obviously involves energy induction and harmonics - we simply haven't witnessed instruments and techniques made as yet which exploit the categorically evident processes; and we have not seen many publicly exposed experiments demonstrating the effects of linear harmonic induction over any 'pinned down' time periods. (EG 'butterfly flaps wings,' et cetera).
The philosophical field of 'boundary conditions' is not one given much air-time. Had the Renaissance been allowed to proceed uninterrupted, we would have had better 'science' by now.
I think the 'space hopper' is an example of craft (as in, rule-of-thumb trial-generated mechanical engineering) meeting advanced pure mathematics. ...And somewhere, there is a guy in a dusty old work-room, who spins a paper pin-wheel... ...and Fedex brings cash to his door.
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