Brian Manning Delaney wrote,
>> Logically, existence cannot have a purpose,
>> because teleology assumes an entity external to
>> the goal meta-system under consideration.
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>Maybe, but an individual's life can't be argued on these grounds
>not to have a purpose (since there are things external to it).
But the statement about the purposelessness of existence itself nevertheless remains valid.
>> I think Transhumanists become their own worst
>> enemies in proportion as they fail to transcend
>> philosophy to embrace science, especially the
>> science of subjectivity.
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>Why?
>
>Seems odd, since science is a subset of philosophy.
Science means a system of knowledge subject to empirical verification.
Philosophy means the art of asking the wrong questions.
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