Open Mind Fun 大龄青年成才计划

We philosophers are better at questions than answers. Finding better questions to ask, and breaking old habits and traditions of asking. KINDS OF MIND, Daniel Dennett

In Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film La Cité des Enfants Perdus, there was this character Irvin, a brain floating in an aquarium, reminding me of the example of a brain set up in a life-support system in a vat as Daniel Dennett described in his Consciousness Explained. In order to simulate the reality, a combinatorial explosion of questions are raised. Two issues could be further studied here:

  • What is brain? What is the relationship between a brain and a man?
  • What is the function of combinatorial explosion and the application of it?

Combinatorial explosion

Negative example of combinatorial explosion

Infinite regression 无限递归:可以设立更多的规则去解释,然后再用更多的规则去解释刚设立的规则,没有一个世纪的界限约定你需要说得多明白。

规则只能让你启程,不会让你走得更远