Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #2–From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence.”

(Khalili Collections, 2021)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT #1: Introduction You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #2[ii]—From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” At the time I … [continue reading]

Surrealism Is Not Fascism.

In a recent essay,[i] Andrew D. Chapman throws both Postmodernism and Surrealism into the “Fascism” pot. I won’t say anything here about whether Postmodernism belongs there or not, although I think this should be examined on a case-by-case basis.[ii] I doubt that such a blanket classification would stand up to scrutiny for all works and … [continue reading]

Computability and Physics.

APP Editors’ Note: Andreas Keller is an independent philosopher living in Hannover, Germany, and currently working as a computer programmer. *** In Part 3, Section 2.2 (“Natural Mechanism, Computability, and Anti-Mechanism”) of “The Rational Human Condition”[i], Robert Hanna proposes a definition of what he calls “natural mechanism,” in terms of mechanistic laws of physics. He … [continue reading]