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Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this stirring tribute to many of the now-deceased cast members and guest stars of the original Star Trek series: “Remembering the Original ‘Star Trek’ Stars We’ve Lost, From Spock to Scotty and Beyond“. Shout … Continue reading →

I want to conclude my series on “Kurt Gödel and the Leibniz Conspiracy” with the following observation about Franz Neumann’s influential 1957 essay on conspiracy theories[1]: Neumann, with his focus on “anxiety” and “politics”, has opened up a veritable Pandora’s … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we turned to Franz L. Neumann’s influential 1957 essay on “Anxiety and Politics” to explore the inner logic of Kurt Gödel’s conspiracy theory, or what I like to call “The Leibniz Conspiracy”. In brief, according to Neumann (1957, p. … Continue reading →

In my previous posts (see here, here, and here), I provided some historical background regarding Gottfried Leibniz’s efforts to develop a universal symbolic language (characteristica universalis) and universal thinking machine (calculus ratiocinator), and I also mentioned how one of Leibniz’s … Continue reading →

N.B.: I will resume my series on “Kurt Gödel and the Leibniz Conspiracy” in my next post. Building on my previous blog posts on this subject (see here, here, here, and here), I have just posted this short paper to … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on “The Leibniz Conspiracy” in the next day or two; in the meantime, here is some melancholic music by North American country artist Morgan Wallen from his 2021 studio album, Dangerous: The Double Album: Fun fact: … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous two posts (see here and here), it was Kurt Gödel who posited the existence of a centuries-long conspiracy to conceal Leibniz’s efforts to develop a universal symbolic language (characteristica universalis) and universal thinking machine … Continue reading →

That is one of the chapter headings of Michael Kempe’s intellectual biography of G. W. Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days (see p. 96 of Kempe’s book). To the point, as … Continue reading →

I just finished reading Michael Kempe’s beautiful intellectual biography of G. W. Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days. Among other things, Kempe explores one of the many ways that the great … Continue reading →