Mary Midgley was born OTD in 1919.

“Philosophy, like speaking prose, is something we have to do all our lives, well or badly, whether we notice it or not.”

“Animals are not machines…. Actually only machines are machines.”

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I don't have an issue with the axiomatic approach per se. Shannon's information theory is also axiomatic. I am more annoyed by the lack of operationalization of Phi. In information theory, quantities like entropy or mutual information are only meaningful through their pragmatics.

Saying that the brain does gradient descent is correct exactly in the same sense as saying that the iPhone does binary arithmetic.

Physical forces discovered to have a role in multicellular evolution.