Dogmatic slumbers
Jul. 28th, 2005 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
While discussing my colleagues' bureaucratic devotion to dogma, I remembered Murray Gell-Mann's sarcastic comment about Feymann's method of problem solving:
- Write down the problem
- Think very hard
- Write down the answer.
Maybe I should have quoted Popper: "Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve"
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Date: 2005-07-29 01:59 pm (UTC)I did not really understand the part on quantum things but
the chapters on complexity theory are great.
That makes me think of the peak of my academic career,
I once had a drink with Gregory Chaitin. :-)
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Date: 2005-07-29 06:01 pm (UTC)Sadly, I haven't read it, but I do remember a Horizon doc about him. It was great. He came over as a really cool guy.
That's pretty impressive. I know (or used to know) Simon Frith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Frith). Of course, I knew him back before he was famous.