Re: value, labour and conservation laws

[Michael Eldred <artefact@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cologne 23-May-2003

Paul Cockshott schrieb  Wed, 21 May 2003 10:54:37 +0100:

> Andrew Brown wrote:
>
>> Regarding your summary of my position on value: this is a
>> reasonable summary -- and thanks for that -- though it does of
>> course beg crucial questions such as the nature of 'logic' and its
>> relation to matter, so I probably wouldn't have put it quite the
>> same
>> way.
>
> On issues of the philosophical status of maths and logic,
> I regard Deutsch as one of the most fruitful researchers
> working on a materialist theory in this respect.
>
> I enclose a his key 1985 paper and a recent summary.
>
> --
> Paul Cockshott
> Dept Computing Science
> University of Glasgow
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> 0141 330 3125
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The two papers represent what I would call a digital casting of being.
The distinction between "software" and "hardware" maps (somewhat
imperfectly) onto the Cartesian dualism between res cogitans and res
extensa.

Michael
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