Comments on: Common Sense Astronomy http://scrimisms.com/2006/01/21/common-sense-astronomy/ Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ian http://scrimisms.com/2006/01/21/common-sense-astronomy/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Ian Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:07:04 +0000 http://icebox.lonelyfridge.com/?p=86#comment-146 Cast of beans indeed. I googled for the quote. Turns out that according to James, the world is like a "cast of beans" in that it is what we make of it, no inherent meaning. Oddly enough, the controversial CS ideas (AI ideas, to be more precise) would tend to take issue with William James on that very point. "I liken the world to a cast of beens, in that bee\ans are very interesting things" we might say instead. And, I'm going to leave you hanging without giving you any concrete details. Although I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff I find I have a hard time explaining it. I won't leave you hanging indefinitely but give me some time to think about how to express it all. Cast of beans indeed.

I googled for the quote. Turns out that according to James, the world is like a “cast of beans” in that it is what we make of it, no inherent meaning.

Oddly enough, the controversial CS ideas (AI ideas, to be more precise) would tend to take issue with William James on that very point.

“I liken the world to a cast of beens, in that bee\ans are very interesting things” we might say instead.

And, I’m going to leave you hanging without giving you any concrete details. Although I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff I find I have a hard time explaining it. I won’t leave you hanging indefinitely but give me some time to think about how to express it all.

]]> By: luke http://scrimisms.com/2006/01/21/common-sense-astronomy/comment-page-1/#comment-145 luke Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:00:52 +0000 http://icebox.lonelyfridge.com/?p=86#comment-145 i recall my father saying that once upon a time, he used a william james quote in a paper, but since he didn't get the paper back from the prof, he lost the qoutation for years. he found it again with goodle a year or two ago "i liken reality to a cast of beans on the table" or something like that... google "cast of beans" and you will probably find it. /// anyhow, would you share the controversial computer science ideas? i don't know a heck of a lot about computers, but i like ideas... and contra-versey... i recall my father saying that once upon a time, he used a william james quote in a paper, but since he didn’t get the paper back from the prof, he lost the qoutation for years.

he found it again with goodle a year or two ago

“i liken reality to a cast of beans on the table” or something like that… google “cast of beans” and you will probably find it.

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anyhow, would you share the controversial computer science ideas?

i don’t know a heck of a lot about computers, but i like ideas…

and contra-versey…

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