Dogmatic slumbers

[sawyl]

While discussing my colleagues' bureaucratic devotion to dogma, I remembered Murray Gell-Mann's sarcastic comment about Feymann's method of problem solving:

1. Write down the problem
2. Think very hard
3. 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"

Comments

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

I have loved "The quark and the jaguar".
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. :-)

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

I have loved "The quark and the jaguar".

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 makes me think of the peak of my academic career, I once had a drink with Gregory Chaitin. :-)

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.