Man and Machine What is the connection, and is anything else needed?

I. DESCARTES AND MATHEMATICS--WHAT IS RELIABLE KNOWLEDGE, AND WHAT ROLE DOES REASON PLAY?

II. FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY BUT HATED IT!!!--WHY? (P. 231)

A. HIS PROJECT WENT BEYOND ‘BRIDGE BUILDING’

1. HE WANTED RELIABLE KNOWLEDGE
2. HE WANTED TO SOLVE THE BODY-SOUL:MATTER-MIND DUALISM.--THE THINKING ‘I’ IS MORE REAL THAN THE SENSE WORLD
3. NOTE HOW THIS DUALISM CAN BE TRACED TO THE GREEKS

B. EPISTEMOLOGY--SIMPLE TO COMPLEX--THE ‘COGITO ERGO SUM’ ARGUMENT P. 235), AND AMERICAN READERS MIGHT BE MORE FAMILIAR WITH SHAKESPEARE'S TAMING OF THE SHREW AS AN EXAMPLE OF DREAMING IN ART. RECALL WHAT SLY IS ASKED TO BELIEVE.

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C. ARGUMENT FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE--IS THERE A FLAW--recall St.Thomas Aquinas' arguments for the existence of God.

D. ARGUES FOR THE CONCEPT OF INNATE IDEAS--TRACED BACK TO PLATO.

E. GOD AS PERFECT WOULD NOT DECEIVE US SO WHAT OUR SENSES REPORT AS REAL MUST BE REAL--THE PHYSICAL WORLD EXISTS.

F. MATTER = EXTENSION AND IDEAS = THOUGHT (P. 237).

G. DESCARTES MAINTAINS A FUNDAMENTAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER AND IS CALLED A DUALIST.

H. WE THINK SAD AND HAPPY THOUGHTS, AND WE CRY.

I. WHAT METHODOLOGY DID HE DERIVE FOR SOLVING ANY PROBLEM, AND HOW IS DEDUCTION INVOLVED? SEE ESPECIALLY PAGE 233.

III. SOPHIE'S DIALOGUE WITH THE COMPUTER:

A. ID'S HILDE AND SOPHIE AS THE SAME AGE AND BOTH CELEBRATING WITH A PARTY. JUNG MIGHT BE HELPFUL HERE.

B. CANNOT ID HILDE’S FATHER BEYOND UN ROLE--why: what is the metaphysics and epistemology?

C. ALBERTO SEEMS SURPRISED WHEN COMPUTER ID'S ITSELF AS MAJOR KNAG (HILDE'S DAD).

D. NOTE THE CONNECTION --ALBERT KNAG AND ALBERTO KNOX.

E. WHAT ALLUSION DOES 'LOATHSOME DATA VIRUS' (P. 242) SUGGEST, AND NOTE BAGATELLE APPEARS AGAIN.