Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy

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1. prionassemblyJun 2021
   I recommend Manuel de Landa (stylizes his name to Delanda these days), particularly “Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy” if your flavor is Anglo style analytical philosophy.

   The relevant Deleuze texts (A Thousand Plateaus) can be infuriating if you’re not open to this whole other style of thinking, but Deleuze is no postmodern, he’s a realist and a materialist and sort of a science worshipper, albeit from an angle that would make Neil deGrasse Tyson start bleeding from his nose until he passed out, if he ever grokked it. Start with Delanda, probably.

   [googling a little, this isn’t great but isn’t bad for something readily accessible: http://dar.aucegypt.edu/bitstream/handle/10526/3534/DeLanda%... ]

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2. angel_jSep 2020
   I am using motion quite generally, to include the motion of particles, heat, etc. I don't know if the emergent property stuff is proven or discussed much, but I think the field is coming around to it, if for no other reason than they are running out of ideas.

   Physics has been working in the top-down direction. That is not how you find emergent properties, it is an attempt to explain things from the properties they seem to possess.

   For instance, the relatively gigantic boson is somehow "sub-atomic", to particle physicists. Whereas I think it that particles emerge from the breakdown of the bosonic field, and when we smash together the particles which reveal the boson, we are briefly seeing what happens when we have put them back together. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039542

   A very good primer on this is "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" by Manuel DeLanda.

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3. thanatropismSep 2019
   Cf. Manuel de Landa, "War in the age of intelligent machines".

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83650.War_in_the_Age_of_...

   Delanda was very interesting in the beginning but didn't quite find or found his community and began talking in an echo chamber that impoverished his thought. Still, "War...", "Intensive science and virtual philosophy" and "A thousand years of nonlinear history" are respectively a very promising start, an impressive peak and an early mature book. Too bad I can't recommend anything from "Philosophy and simulation" forward.

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4. tedkimbleAug 2011
   Manuel DeLanda - Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy

   http://www.amazon.com/Intensive-Science-Virtual-Philosophy-C...

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