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alpha0  ·  3921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian

You are welcome.

Thank you for the link. I'm listening to it now.

As to the content of Dr. Dreyfus' lecture and the 'contrary' distinctions he draws between Greeks and "Judeo-Christians":

I recently read somewhere that the ancient Iranians held that Water and Fire must be United and at the same time did not consider these two 'meta-physical elements' to be 'antagonistic'. They believe that (and I paraphrase) 'It is entirely due to the destructive degeneration of Ahriman ("devil") that Fire and Water are mutually destructive to one another in this plane'.

In other words,

O Bhagavat! We now wish to give an illustration to clarify what we mean: Suppose there were a man who, when he was still a child, left his father and ran away. Living in another region for a long time he passed the age of ten, twenty, even fifty years. The older he got the more impoverished he became.