One might think those into exploring the logical foundations of mathematics would have their interest piqued by the suggestion of a different way to model multiplication of two or three numbers.
We learn from childhood that a "square" number is like 2 x 2 whereas 2 x 2 x 2 is a "cubic" number. But who dictated the two rods of length two needed to be at 90 degrees?
Suppose we placed them at 60 degrees, might that be an area of 4 as well? Could 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 be shown with three rods emanating as if from the corner of a regular tetrahedron instead? These are not hard questions to think about actually.
R. Buckminster Fuller, with something like 45 honorary doctorates (meaning these institutions gave him a free degree to help prove its worth to others, as a standard-setter), considered the efficacy of measuring in tetravolumes one of the most important mathematical discoveries of his career.
He built up a whole philosophy, as mature as any one person might fashion in a lifetime, around the tetrahedron, at the center of his metaphysics but also of his numeric and geometric computations. The domes came out of that work.
Did any philosophers pick up on these cues? Or did they cop out by saying Fuller was an architect and it's the geodesic dome he'll be remembered for, not the mathematics? Then maybe the next step is to attack his originality in that area, and use the word "charlatan" a lot.
I picked up on the core philosophy, as did a very few others. We've made some further discoveries since. That's exciting for us. But is "a very few" enough?
Given how much of the American Dream for a better tomorrow was wound up in Fuller's brand of global utopianism (cite Disney World's EPCOT's Spaceship Earth), doesn't it appear these deliberately short attention spans, and a willingness to parrot "the authorities" might have other, deeper motives?
Lowering expectations for the future seems more in line with what the Great Tragedy Directors have in store for Spaceship Earth. They've already scripted out their version of an End Times, and anything even remotely hopeful and utopian represents a disruption of their timeline.
How long do we keep postponing Armageddon? There's some impatience to get on with it.
Philosophers with a longer view of tomorrow get shoved to the sidelines by the distopian schools.
To check whether your own school is distopian, more a part of the problem than a part of the solution, find out if any of Fuller's Synergetics is ever excerpted and discussed. Is it on any syllabus whatsoever?
Consider jumping to a different school, with a stronger philosophy department, if not.
We learn from childhood that a "square" number is like 2 x 2 whereas 2 x 2 x 2 is a "cubic" number. But who dictated the two rods of length two needed to be at 90 degrees?
Suppose we placed them at 60 degrees, might that be an area of 4 as well? Could 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 be shown with three rods emanating as if from the corner of a regular tetrahedron instead? These are not hard questions to think about actually.
R. Buckminster Fuller, with something like 45 honorary doctorates (meaning these institutions gave him a free degree to help prove its worth to others, as a standard-setter), considered the efficacy of measuring in tetravolumes one of the most important mathematical discoveries of his career.
He built up a whole philosophy, as mature as any one person might fashion in a lifetime, around the tetrahedron, at the center of his metaphysics but also of his numeric and geometric computations. The domes came out of that work.
Did any philosophers pick up on these cues? Or did they cop out by saying Fuller was an architect and it's the geodesic dome he'll be remembered for, not the mathematics? Then maybe the next step is to attack his originality in that area, and use the word "charlatan" a lot.
I picked up on the core philosophy, as did a very few others. We've made some further discoveries since. That's exciting for us. But is "a very few" enough?
Given how much of the American Dream for a better tomorrow was wound up in Fuller's brand of global utopianism (cite Disney World's EPCOT's Spaceship Earth), doesn't it appear these deliberately short attention spans, and a willingness to parrot "the authorities" might have other, deeper motives?
Lowering expectations for the future seems more in line with what the Great Tragedy Directors have in store for Spaceship Earth. They've already scripted out their version of an End Times, and anything even remotely hopeful and utopian represents a disruption of their timeline.
How long do we keep postponing Armageddon? There's some impatience to get on with it.
Philosophers with a longer view of tomorrow get shoved to the sidelines by the distopian schools.
To check whether your own school is distopian, more a part of the problem than a part of the solution, find out if any of Fuller's Synergetics is ever excerpted and discussed. Is it on any syllabus whatsoever?
Consider jumping to a different school, with a stronger philosophy department, if not.
Still one of the best publications on Synergetics out there: https://t.co/SBmQMJTFur @BuckyFullerInst @buckminfuller @BuckyFuller_— Kirby Urner (@4DsolutionsPDX) July 23, 2016
Me teaching philosophy to adults: https://t.co/AZGOtYS3RE Free School, Portland. 2010— Kirby Urner (@4DsolutionsPDX) July 25, 2016
