From Newsgroup: sci.physics

[Follow-up set to alt.philosophy.]

Lagrangian then Hamiltonian mechanics: the reduction of
physics to a completely mechanical exercise, one that
can eventually be delegated to a machine.

Indeed, it started with geometry itself, with the advent
of Cartesianism->Newtonianism, and eventually the use of
analytic methods all over the place. Up to GR where,
instead of independence from coordinates, we get general
covariance.

But an object is not its representation, e.g. a numeral
is not the number, or, a vector is not a collection of
components: a representation is a view, always partial
and always deforming.

Yet, the fundamental dream and journey of modern-western
to contemporary-global thought and politics appears to be
(unwarranted and abusive reductions to) the delegation of
all life, intelligence and decency to machines: the wet
indecent dream of some lazy masters of the universe...
Actually, we are left to be sacks of delusional, miserable,
isolated, vacuous and vicious, rotten flesh: to eventually
the total extinction of humanity as such.

On n'|-chappe pas |a la machine is not a logical necessity,
it's the name of that suicidal inversion and game.

Julio

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