Tim Palmer, The Primacy of Doubt: From Climate Change to Quantum Physics, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Predict and Understand Our Chaotic World, #review #isbn9780192843593 #doubt
what does an AI chat summarize my post as? https://chat.openai.com/chat The text discusses Tim Palmer's book, The Primacy of Doubt, and how it explores the science of uncertainty to help predict and understand our chaotic world. The author of the text highlights the importance of doubt, not only as a state of uncertainty but also as actively questioning a particular claim. The text also explores the social context in which doubt and skepticism were used in ancient times and how it relates to modern politics. The author suggests that doubt is a primary political act, as it seeks to corral the doubt of living people into the practice of power, and that primary binary political actors use doubt as a rhetorical device to confuse individuals and gain political gain or defense.
what does an AI chat summarize my post as? https://chat.openai.com/chat The text discusses Tim Palmer's book, The Primacy of Doubt, and how it explores the science of uncertainty to help predict and understand our chaotic world. The author of the text highlights the importance of doubt, not only as a state of uncertainty but also as actively questioning a particular claim. The text also explores the social context in which doubt and skepticism were used in ancient times and how it relates to modern politics. The author suggests that doubt is a primary political act, as it seeks to corral the doubt of living people into the practice of power, and that primary binary political actors use doubt as a rhetorical device to confuse individuals and gain political gain or defense.
finicky etymologically discussions can be interesting, epochē, prosochē, mindfulness, sati, judgement, neutrality... https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/massimo-pigliucci-city-college-of
by state actors I mean #Ruzzia https://snyder.substack.com/p/playing-the-victim?