jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agoDescartes and the deep state: what 17th-century philosophy reveals about Trump and QAnontheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareCybermonk_Taiji@r.nflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI agree. But also Descartes was utterly and completely wrong. Y’all mothafuckas need some Lockean Empiricism up in here!
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoHe might have been wrong, but his thought experiment was very powerful and shaped modern theory of mind. And a pretty cool 90’s movie. Oh yeah. Locke, stock and two smoking barrels was a good movie too
minus-squareCybermonk_Taiji@r.nflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoShaped it for the worse with absolutely incorrect assumptions that are laughable. But sure.
I agree.
But also Descartes was utterly and completely wrong.
Y’all mothafuckas need some Lockean Empiricism up in here!
He might have been wrong, but his thought experiment was very powerful and shaped modern theory of mind. And a pretty cool 90’s movie.
Oh yeah. Locke, stock and two smoking barrels was a good movie too
Shaped it for the worse with absolutely incorrect assumptions that are laughable.
But sure.