SAL RESTIVO'S BLOG: THE SOCIOLOGICAL COGITO

  DAS IST NICHT PHYSIK, DAS IST THEOLOGIE   Theoretical physicist Melvin Vopson, University of Portsmouth (UK)  has set out to “prove” that we are living in a simulation (11/21,  The Conversation).   This is an exercise in physical fundamentalism.     David Chalmers, a leading philosopher in this field claims he is an  atheist but says the simulation “hypothesis” (hypothesis NOT) has  made him take the existence of God seriously.   The simulation hypothesis  would be impossible, he says, without the provocation of deceptive demons,  indeed of an omnipotent and omnideceptive God.   These sorts of theoretical  excursions in physics mirror philosophy which proceeds in a world of logical  and linguistic symbols without real world stop signs.   If we can solve the  hard problem of consciousness(and we can if we take off the blinders that  keep us from seeing   social life as a nexus...

  MORE KNCs.   *Satan readying world for Antichrist with rise in demonic content authoritarian regimes:" Michael             Youssef *Attention something can’t come from nothing Christian apologists. It now appears (keeping in mind that all knowledge is presumptive, corrigible, fallible and escapes the evidence)+that scientists have demonstrated the Schwinger effect. “In theory, a vacuum is devoid of matter. In the presence of strong electric or magnetic fields, however, this void can break down, causing elementary particles to spring into existence. Usually, this breakdown only occurs during intense astrophysical events, but researchers at the UK’s National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester have now brought it into tabletop territory for the first time, observing this so-called Schwinger effect in a device based on graphene superlattices. The work will be important for developing electronic devices based on graphene and...

  Sex is everywhere all the time.  It might even be a force of nature like gravity; SEXITY, my anthropology professor called it.  Could item two explain what's wrong with America?  Could item 3 explain why Canada is a more advanced civilization?  And is Maddona our Albert Einstein of the laws of SEXITY? In a world of unconscionable levels of violence, inequalities, and injustices, why are we prosecuting sex in public?  Is public sex more dangerous to our mental and emotional health and that of our children than public warfare, public violence in entertainment, the perversity of our everyday public attacks on each other and our environments?  What is wrong with a life form that seems so committed to creating anti-sexity moralities while continuing its massive assault on the human and ecological foundations of life itself?  We are a species out of time and out of space.  

  From the desk of the MindWarrior, the voice in the wilderness where trees fall and philosophers go nuts; remarks on a headline:  Objective Reality May Not Exist at All, Quantum Physicists Say.  But don’t let your guard down.  You should still look both ways when you cross the street in New York; read the directions below the curb when you cross the street in London; and be prepared to look six ways when crossing the boulevards of Rome and Paris.   Two things:1.Objectivity is not a monolith; it is shaped by culture and different groups live in different objectivity communities. 2. Principle of the profundity of the surface; but remember that this is a portal to the objectivities of “other worlds” like the worlds of quantum physics and relativity theory, not to mention the worlds of certain judges and political leaders.   Have a nice day.  Stay safe  Be aware of which objectivity community you’re in when you cross the street.  ...

  In the moments following the irresponsibility, morally degraded, and ultimately illegal SCOTUS decision on Roe v Wade I posted: A few words for you, Amerika. Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. Shame! It's not about abortion, stupid! If you are infected with the illusion that "logic" is a once and only historical phenomenon, that there is only ONE logic, that logic isn't a function of culture and values, read the SCOTUS "reasons" for overturning Roe v Wade. Hermann Lotze (1817-1881). There is no Logik, only logics. Oswald Spengler (1880-1936). There is no Mathematik, only mathematics. Sal Restivo and other science studies scholars: There is no Science, only sciences. I then shared the following post by M.J. Fleck Micah J. Fleck, Ed.M.(He/Him) • 1stAnthropologist, Curriculum Designer at MIDAS Multiple Intelligence Research, M.S. Candidate at University of North Texas1d • Edited  Fifty years of precedent has been wiped away today ...

  https://flip.it/-ZPRXV THE WASHINGTON POST Google’s AI passed a famous test — and showed how the test is broken The Turing test has long been a benchmark for machine intelligence. But what it really measures is deception.    Analysis by Will Oremus, Staff writer                                    June 17, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT THIS ITEM ASKS THAT YOU RE-CONSIDER WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE, AND WHAT THE TURING TEST ACTUALLY TESTS -SR _____________________________________________ A Dyson Sphere Could Help Humankind Live Forever. So We Found Out How to Build One. This sci-fi megastructure has captivated big thinkers for decades. A leading expert in astrobiology tells us how to construct one., BY DIRK SCHULZE-MAKUCH, JUN 17, 2022 https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a40230192/dyson-sphere-immortality/ THIS ITEM ASKS THAT YOU RE-CONSIDER WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE, AND WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE OBSESSE...

 In a Linkedin post today I had occasion to recall my friendship with the distinguished Costa Rican lawyer and sociologist, Eugenio Fonseca, with whom I shared an office at Michigan State University in 1971.  We both received our PhDs in sociology that year.   E. Fonseca: L.L., University of Madrid; Diploma, Latin American Faculty of So- cial Sciences.  Sociology. Major Professor: Frederick B. Waisanen, Professor. Thesis: Social Stratification, Some Aspects of Social Mobility and Family Planning in the Context of Modernization. In my post, I wrote:  Words in Context: A Morality Play The words are: treason, subversion, sedition, equality under the law, democracy. The Context is: "Law is the institutionalization of the social injustices of a society." Eugenio had written this on the blackboard in our office.   El Departamento de Ciencias del Hombre aglutinaba tres carreras: Antropología, Psicología y Sociología; en 1969 y 1970...