PHL342H1 Lecture : Introductory class
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*any part of the mind that you think will be challenging on a machine* th lecture. Descartes: middle of the 19th century included the success of science and chemistry. The rational world view emerged and caused reactions. A book called the laws of thought: in the mid 19th century, the injection of the mental and physical occurred. The rise of pragmatism was motivated by the blindness that can lead one to horrors. The first 40 years of the 20th century was filled with humility. If you formalize anything like arithmetic, none of us can always get it right. It is possible to come up with plain arithmetic. Turin: was gay, being gay was illegal in england and was arrested. Subsequently he was forced to take estrogen and it took a toll on him. Turin gets so much credit because the turin machine shows a deft move on his part; he introduced a concrete physical idea of the machine.