Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> > because the techniques required in doing philosophy can be reused in
> > other fields.
>
> Hmm. Care to name a few? I'm genuinely interested; there is a reason
> I was hanging out on #philosophy on EFnet for a while.
Critical thinking. Rhetoric. The design of experiments. (Getting
good at identifying relevant thought experiments can extrapolate into
the design of scientific experiments.)
> > And you know what? I've got some pretty good answers right now; I
> > feel better off knowing them.
>
> Share! Share! You will feel even better after having dumped it on
> an appreciative audience. Like us.
To cut to the chase: that "consciousness" has no bearing on the
success or failure of uploading/AI, that the market is an effective
means of generating morally desirable outcomes, that epistemology can
be (and should be) satisfactorily circumvented, and that it is
pragmatically equivalent whether we have free will or whether we are
determined, but that it is a matter of science as to whether we are
more "free willed" than rocks.
Oh, and that Leibnitz's Law should be understood as referring to all
of ones qualitative properties, in additon to qualitative relations
between haecceitistically identified objects, but not to quantitative
properties (otherwise, the "law" is empty). And that you can
get through life just fine without knowing what this means. ;)
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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