If you want to know how computers work, do electrical engineering. If you want to know how electricity works, do physics. If you want to know how physics works, do mathematics. If you want to know how mathematics works, too bad, best you can do is think about the fact it works in philosophy.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’d count theoretical computer science as a subfield of math, and practical software engineering among the other engineerings on the harder side of the centre.
If you want to know how computers work, do electrical engineering. If you want to know how electricity works, do physics. If you want to know how physics works, do mathematics. If you want to know how mathematics works, too bad, best you can do is think about the fact it works in philosophy.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png
If you want to know how philosophy works, do sociology…
It’s kind of like a horseshoe with philosophy and math at the ends.
If you want to no longer want to know how anything works, do biochemistry
Too real
A horseshoe capped off by Computer Science 😉
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’d count theoretical computer science as a subfield of math, and practical software engineering among the other engineerings on the harder side of the centre.
I wouldn’t disagree with that. Discrete mathematics was a core subject when I did my Computer Science course.
But I do still laugh when I tell people I’m a ‘scientist’, with my fingers crossed behind my back of course 😉
all roads lead to philosophy
Everything is philosophy until it becomes science. Unless it’s anything to do with politics then it just remains philosophy forever.
Science is a subdiscipline of philosophy.