Godtrademark

Godtrademark t1_j4nh0yj wrote

This is a genuine woosh bro. The mind/matter gap has always been a distinct part of western philosophy. The best we have are “compromises” that may or may not be logically sound, like Kant’s phenomenal world. But even in the 1700s, David Hume, a SCOTTISH EMPIRICIST (those most concerned with evidence), developed the idea that all observations are simply related in time, and it’s the human psychological urge to organize that gives any correlation at all. Otherwise, you’re left with a dogmatic, unchanging interpretation of science, not an actual scientific method based on falsifiability and reinterpretation. The best we have for “truth” is universal assent, as in most people agree.

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Godtrademark t1_j11v64q wrote

As a political philosophy student it really hurts to see all this futurism with the obvious conclusion ignored: political organization matters. It doesn’t matter how much you believe the new technologies will matter, technicians are required for all these things, and technicians are a vulnerable anomaly of the modern world. It’s just as likely technical sciences are lost (diverted for war, domination, profit, etc.) into a new dark age as it is to enter a cornucopian age where technology serves the developmental use for a utopian society.

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