Two Key Words: ‘Interaction’ and ‘Impact’
I agree with what some philosophers (such as Charles Sanders Peirce and Jacques Derrida) believed: We are ‘defined’ by the interactions with other people. Our identity is of a field type (like the identity of an atom given by its interactions with the other atoms), not of an entity type. As a corollary, the best assessment of our life achievements comes from the impact of our activity, particularly from the reaction of other people to our accomplishments. The key words here are interaction and impact. Through the glasses of this philosophy, I will try to contemplate the personality of Professor Cristian S. Calude as a scholar and as a person.
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Marcus, S. (2012). The Art of Reaching the Age of Sixty. In: Dinneen, M.J., Khoussainov, B., Nies, A. (eds) Computation, Physics and Beyond. WTCS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_1
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