tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post3449077239947029585..comments2023-09-11T01:59:23.810-07:00Comments on Sierra Highlands: Better Off ?Willahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17374272000644968446noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post-36668091924055243402007-05-30T11:09:00.000-07:002007-05-30T11:09:00.000-07:00Very interesting!My Philosophy professor said that...Very interesting!<BR/><BR/>My Philosophy professor said that pre-Pascal non-living matter tended to be understood as 'stupid', if that can be applied, because of its inert unchangingness. No matter what you do, how much you exhort, a rock placed on a slope will still roll downhill, in obedience to blind force.<BR/><BR/>Pascal was the first one (I believe) to use that unthinking force for a thinking-related task: he invented the calculator. <BR/><BR/>Now, prehaps, we admire the blind force and the complexity of machines much more than the willful complexity of life.lissla lissarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354424704358588553noreply@blogger.com