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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#9667348 - 01/23/09 07:38 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mr. Mushrooms said: Ok, I was wondering if that is what you were driving at. In mushroom taxonomy you would be looking at a mushroom you found and think, "Damn, that looks like a Psilocybe." That is the hypothesis. (I'm just saying that for those that wouldn't know.) You would then test the hypothesis by running a series of tests. The first one would probably be making a spore print. Along the way you might pinch it to see if it stains blue. After a few tests you would conclude your hypothesis, generated intuitively, was correct.
That said, it is my opinion that the data used to arrive at intuition is merely sensate data collected subconsciously. I don't really know that, of course. I just intuit it.
When I was in high school somebody told me about jimson weed. They said you either trip really hard or die. I think taxonomy is really a projection of your fear of death.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Silversoul]
#9667457 - 01/23/09 07:54 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Silversoul said: I tend to think of intuition as essentially pattern-seeking behavior. We begin with perceptions. We then intuit a kind of patterned order to those perceptions. We then logically test if that order makes sense. I think that's why intuition seems to be strengthened by the same substances that cause you to see faces on the carpet.
QFT; mushrooms FTW.
Snappy comebacks aside though, yes, I completely agree.
Can anyone find any philosophical errors in this idea?
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thaganja
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#9677538 - 01/25/09 04:30 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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sounds like what i think about while tripping...dont realy see the point.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Freedom]
#9678326 - 01/25/09 06:17 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't really know what your point is.
You seem to conflate information with logic.
Emotions can be analyzed logically just can things you see or smell.
Logic is rules for extracting reliable meaning from our information. Emotions are information sources as is everything else.
I kinda miss what you're trying to say here so maybe I'm off base, but it seems like you presume emtoions conflict with logic when they're totally seperate.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: johnm214]
#9679889 - 01/25/09 10:21 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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logic? intuition? they arent really a dichotomy at all nor are they two ends of the same stick
logic is used to identifying contradiction. thats all it really is.
intuition is the sense of what is 'right', or 'the right' plan of action or 'the right interpretation'.
people who claim to be flying around on the winds of logic are likely to not be using logic much at all but confusing it with 'unspeculative' discourse. all you can ever do with logic is apply it to notions and see if they are compatible. and to find out what else is not compatible.
intuition on the other hand can be used for anything where there is considered to be a right or wrong.. and otherwise, it is known as 'whim' instead of intuition.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Noteworthy]
#9683105 - 01/26/09 02:58 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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That said, it is my opinion that the data used to arrive at intuition is merely sensate data collected subconsciously.
intuition can be a conscious process.
the difference is thinking with internal models built out of internally produced sensation instead of with words that represent idealized external models.
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ogic? intuition? they arent really a dichotomy at all nor are they two ends of the same stick
exactly. but the cultural norm, as far as I can tell, is that there is a value hierarchy, with logic at the top.
when intuition, metaphor and vague thought processes are ignored or discredited simply because they lack logic, then one is simply ignoring observations because they can't be understood.
but it's also so important to look at what logic rests on. logic rests on and is directed by non-logical processes. can it still be called logic when it is controlled by non logical processes?
Say a crazy person thinks an aluminum hat will protect them from the government. This is the motivation to start a logical process. So the person does research and builds a design, and this research, design and building process can be 100% logical, but the premise is psychotic.
So when people argue about logic, i just see psychotics making tinfoil hats.
That's like where we are. Where does our motivation come from?
so there are many 'points' or implications that follow from all this, it seems to me.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Freedom]
#9684788 - 01/26/09 07:32 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote: ogic? intuition? they arent really a dichotomy at all nor are they two ends of the same stick
exactly. but the cultural norm, as far as I can tell, is that there is a value hierarchy, with logic at the top.
when intuition, metaphor and vague thought processes are ignored or discredited simply because they lack logic, then one is simply ignoring observations because they can't be understood.
I think you're a little unclear on what logic really can and cannot show. Your intuition may not give sufficient evidence to be very certain of anything, but its not like your intuition is of no logical import. Your intution is a fact. You say its what you feel that is a fact.
Just cuz you feel something doesn't mean we have evidence to conclude your conclusions are accurate, but we can conclude that you've said you feel such and such.
Logic doesn't say your thoughts are wrong or ignore them, its says your thoughts are evidence and that evidence isn't enough for some questions but is for others (i.e. your notions aren't enough to be very confident that your conclusions are correct, however; the notions you report are sufficient to demonstrate you have those notions and you've reported such).
Again i think your conflating data and the means by which we reach conclusions. Logic allows us to reach meaningful conclusions from data. Your thoughts are data and what you say is data. Logic and intuition aren't in competition as they are totally different things.
You seem like you may be confused on soemthing often confused in the press and in popular thought: when the evience is insufficient logic doesn't conclude the hypothesis is wrong, it concludes it cannot be supported with such and such confidence. Likewise when the evidence is sufficient logic doesn't say the conclusion is correct or incorrect, it only says the conclusion is supported and we are such and such confient that it is accurate.
So you are correct that it is wrong to disregard intuition, however; I don't think logic demands that. As such I don't think there's any tension between stuff you know but can not prove and stuff that you know and can be proven.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Freedom]
#9690617 - 01/27/09 06:57 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have a feeling that the use of logic is inherently limited by the validity of premises. I also have a feeling that premises are based on a limited window of the universe and an incomplete and/or inaccurate understanding of what we see through that window. I also feel that intuition is based on sub-conscious modeling of our universe and is subject to some of the same limitations as a logically constructed model.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Trepiodos]
#9690737 - 01/27/09 07:19 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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intuition is the same as logic. it is ordinary conscious thinking - the unfurling of associations logic is a special subset of associative thought: like ballet is a subset of physical gestures and movement. logic usually is so restricted a subset that you can use a kind of notation to write it down.
unfortunately, many complex things do not fit easily enough into that notation, but we do still keep thinking. maybe that is not too unfortunate, maybe it is a grand thing that we can step outside the bounds of logic when it makes sense to do that. imagine dancing ballet all day long and only doing things balletic-ly. it might be beautiful who knows. no-one is that logical.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: redgreenvines]
#9691665 - 01/27/09 09:41 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Logic is how we make judgments/decisions/conclusions just like many make judgments based on beliefs, like a code of morals except right equals what makes sense and wrong is the opposite; of course this varies from person to person. Things are logical by nature, that's the way the universe is. I second the opinion that intuition is unconscious logic, something that you understand from another experience that draws some resemblance to the situation where you "just feel it", your brain doing a kind of comparative computation under the hood. Just my take on it, both of my points were basically already said.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: grebarius]
#9691765 - 01/27/09 09:56 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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logic is not about 'making sense'
however, intuition indeed is most likely based on the same principles as logic.. eg conditionals..
if this and this and not this... then so and so..
but it just goes forth like an organic machine.. it will make mistakes all the time.. and will also never be able to comprehend all of the factors influencing their world. so intuition will always be less rigid to logic.. but based on same principles indeed..
logic is the formalisation of our inner awareness of true of false.. the notion of possiple potentials.. amalgamating information into compatible states of the world.
except logic is externalised in a way that can be checked over and over again with the same results. it is perfectly reliable in every sense.
the drawback is that it requires specific input which itself may or may not be true.
which is why logic is mistaken a lot.. there is no one logical truth of the world.. all that logic states is that there is no contradiction within a world, and that equal things have the same properties.
but it will never tell you whether something is true or not
only 'true, given...x y z'
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Noteworthy]
#9691845 - 01/27/09 10:11 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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but it will never tell you whether something is true or not
Nor did it ever claim too...
Seems like the beef you (and others) have with logic is that you at sometime built it up into something its not, then were inevitably disappointed when you figured out what it really is.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: DieCommie]
#9691893 - 01/27/09 10:21 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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um I am one of the foremost advocates of logic
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Noteworthy]
#9691909 - 01/27/09 10:23 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Foremost advocate" huh? wow
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: DieCommie]
#9691927 - 01/27/09 10:26 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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perhaps you interpreted that to mean that I am formost advocate in the world
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: Noteworthy]
#9691943 - 01/27/09 10:28 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I honestly dont understand what you mean at all. Sorry... I will refrain.
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Re: Logic is not all it's cracked up to be [Re: DieCommie]
#9709047 - 01/30/09 10:42 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Seems like the beef you (and others) have with logic is that you at sometime built it up into something its not, then were inevitably disappointed when you figured out what it really is.
my beef is not about what logic 'is' or how it 'works' but how it is 'used' in our society.
to me, its plainly clear that we don't quite know what the fuck is going on here. how the fuck did we get landed on this rock in the middle of infinity, destined to die for no apparent reason? this is the basic question, and all sorts of weird motherfuckers make up wacky shit to explain it all - crazy mad mother fucking shit that makes no sense whatsoever.
that wacky shit is the foundation for our logic. every idea builds upon it. every motivation, every thought, every move you make has its foundation based either on some crazy dude's fucked up explanation for it all, or, if your really lucky and think on your own, the foundation for all your thought and action is your own fucked up explanation for it all.
and then its all normal.
all these motherfuckers just think its all normal and logical and makes sense and fits into some kind of Cartesian grid.
it's not philosophers, chasing their tails around in circles of logic that bother me.
it's all the creepy fuckers surrounding me who believe everything they believe based on faith but call it logic, then spin all kinds of crazy webs of logic to hide their foundation of faith.
for example, I once saw this wrote:
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- Social Conservatism is founded upon Natural Law, the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, millenia of tradition, family values, history, science and are thereby Absolute Right...not just "normal".
- Social Liberalism is founded on the fringes of history, fringes of society, fringes of religion, usually a pagan/heathen religion, with NO Absolutes...which is just plain WRONG.
However one really great thing talking in this forum is that people point out the wholes in your logic, or the vagueness in your thought process which is really a great thing if you let it be.
I guess that's the flip side - all the crazy fuckers swept away with their emotion with no regard or respect for logic.
Emotion is not all it's cracked up to be
and ultimately I guess what I personally was trying to say in this thread is that cracking things up is not all its cracked up to be!
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