"The Sensitive Man," VIII.
Michael Tighe of the Psychotechnics Institute expounds the origins of psychotechnics:
"'Francis Bacon speculated about a science of man. Boole did some work along those lines as well as inventing the symbolic logic which was to be a major tool in solving the problem." (p. 149)
As a philosophy undergraduate, I received an introduction to symbolic logic. However, googling "Boole Logic" brings up an article on "Boolean algebra" and I am struggling with how they connect. Symbolic logic merely formalizes consistency between propositions, e.g.:
If ((if p, then q) and p), then q -
- without any reference to the content of the propositions, just as, in algebra, letters like "x" and "y" can stand for any number. So I would want some further explanation as to how symbolic logic can be a major tool in developing psychotechnics.
Tighe continues. Freudian and subsequent psychologies:
"'...gave the first real notion of human semantics.'" (p. 149)
Did they?
Next:
human biology, chemistry and physics;
historical patterns recognized by Spengler, Pareto, Toynbee etc;
cybernetic homeostasis and feedback, applicable both to individuals and to societies;
games theory;
the principal of least effort;
"'...Haeml's generalized epistemology...'"; (ibid.)
(those last three imply basic laws and an analytical approach);
new logical and mathematical symbologies suggesting formulations for a rigorous symbolism to process data.
The Institute synthesized all this and I am no wiser.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But we are supposed to assume kind of dramatic break thrus made by fictional like Valti and Michael Tighe. Anderson tried to flesh this out with the work of some real world philosophers which might have been developed further by Valti and Tighe.
Ad astra! Sean
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