"And in a democracy, we are supposed to be democratic about knowledge, you know. Right? Well, everybody’s got a right to be a damn fool."

Socrates and the Life of Inquiry by Rick Roderick

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“Digital philosophy” is actually a neo-Pythagorean vision of the world, it’s just a new version of that. According to Pythagoras, all is number — and by number he means the positive integers, 1, 2, 3, . . . — and God is a mathematician. “Digital philosophy” updates this as follows: Now everything is made out of 0/1 bits, everything is digital software, and God is a computer programmer, not a mathematician!

"Epistemology as Information Theory: From Leibniz to Ω
Gregory Chaitin"
Collapse Volume I Numerical Materialism Robin Mackay (Editor)

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