Philosopher´s stones : Headbuds to think about
Today: Russell´s chicken
“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.” (Bertrand Russell)
Bertrand Russell brought up his solution for an old philosopical problem: How can we abstract knowledge about the world by the phenomena, that we observe – induction. Just like the chicken in this macabre example, we humans don´t know for sure if we play a role in a „higher connection of meaning“.
What if most of the things we know about our world is in fact just something WE are able to percieve, but not the real truth? How do we know that the sun will rise tomorow? Because it has always been like that, because we know the laws of science, which we abstracted by induction and so on…
Russells answer on that problem ist hat we only can know there´s a statistical possibility for the sun to rise tomorow, based on the former „A led to B“ which have been observed.
In crypto I always hear people talk about :“Will token XY rise to 100 bucks in the next bullrun???“ What could such a question have in common with Russell´s chicken?
[Philosopher´s stones : Headbuds to think about 😉
Today: Russell´s chicken
