From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 17:09:53 MST
neptune@mars.superlink.net wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:11:54PM +0100, Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
> >
> > Plato's ideas (whether he invented them or rather crystalized them)
> > for example were a great support for the development of Christianity.
> > Can you imagine Plato without writing? In fact can you imagine
> > philosophizing (for best and worse) without writing?
>
> Oh, that's very hard to imagine! Let's see... Socrates!
Good point. If that's a cause-and-effect relation there, then I'd have to
say the development of writing may have permanently crippled the development
of philosophy.
(Socrates: ****; Plato: *)
-- -- -- -- --
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 13:37:41 MST