(February 3, 2016 at 8:55 am)Rhythm Wrote: Hey, for a darker twist. How much is hard observation of the brain/mind worth to us? How deep down the ethical rabbit hole would we go?
Let me introduce you to HSD (Hallervorden-Spatz Disease). Now called NBIA-1(neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation type 1). A neurological condition described in 1922, by Hallervorden and Spatz. Brilliant neurologists. Go read up on it if you want to be terrified. Relentlessly progressive dementia with an equally shitty full body experience attached.
They would later lend their expertise (and hone it) in nazi germany assisting with the eugenics program and performing human experimentation. A faustian bargain?
I think this question alone is sufficient to justify the continued existence and practice of philosophy.