Philosophy graduate who fixes things for a living. Currently gas boilers and heating systems, but could be anything. Always been interested in what makes people think what they think. Linguistics - Chomsky's tranformative-generative grammar, deep structure and surface structure, the limits of language, and what that has to say about the limits of human thought. I have long thought that people mainly think in images, or 'first' think in images and then maybe if they have time 'do the maths'. Guesswork. Simple rules for action. Approximation. The simple rule, "Take what you need from the environment, dump the waste just anywhere, and move on," has always served humans and other animals well. Humans are the only species which has reached the limits of that 'simple rule', that 'approximation', and has now a conflict between that simple rule and the 'maths' which don't add up. More than anything we need new ways of looking at things that DO add up in a finite world.
