Cartesian

Cartesian Coordinates

But the weird thing is, we have not absorbed this lesson 150 years later none of us really believes this.

Bruno was burned at the stake for his radical suggestion.

I don't think that for a moment, because, I mean,

It goes back to the Skeptics and up through Descartes.

Once you make it, it is etched in stone.

And yeah, it is also why we get things wrong.

Galileo was well into his 70's

The 0th part of point is 1. The 1th part of point is 5.

There are a lot of farmers doing this today.

I get to this point right over there. so he says 'These two values 2 and 5

2, 3, 4 and 5 and he says 'Well anything i can associate

let's put that on the horizontal axis. and it actually was Descartes who came up with a convention of using x's and y's and we'll see later z's in algebra, so extensively as unknown variables with the variables that you're manipulating.

Tony learns about the ontologically promiscuous, the epistemologically anxious, the ethically dubious, the metaphysically ridiculous.

So it helped me understand industrial agriculture, which of course is a Cartesian system.

He's associating all of a sudden these relationships with points on a co ordinate plane. and then he says 'well ok, lets do another one' there's this other relationship, when x is equal to 1, y 3 so x is 1, y is 3. that's that point right over there. and the convention is once again.

And this is a lot more than growing food, as you'll see this is a different way to think about nature and a way to get away from the zero sum notion, the Cartesian idea that either nature's winning or we're winning, and that for us to get what we want, nature is diminished.