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.

[–] bombadil@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

all roads lead to philosophy

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything is philosophy until it becomes science. Unless it's anything to do with politics then it just remains philosophy forever.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Science is a subdiscipline of philosophy.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you want to know how philosophy works, do sociology...

It's kind of like a horseshoe with philosophy and math at the ends.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you want to no longer want to know how anything works, do biochemistry

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Too real

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A horseshoe capped off by Computer Science 😉

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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 😉