RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 23, 2018 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 2:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Moot point between you; as nueroscience, psychology, and ai research all employ philosophy, and philosophy requires the sound inputs of observed facts to function in the manner intended.
There's no reason that science couldn't provide determination for whether or not somethings conscious..and..frankly, it would be difficult to see how philosophy would do that -without- those empirical observations. Maybe science would "redefine" consciousness....relative to some traditional definition..but so what..the traditional definition may be in error. Similarly, so what if science would yield a conclusion that all reality consists of an objective physical existence and nothing more than that? When we need reference of more would be the time that became a problem.
Science isn't going to do any of that..however..none of it..without employing the philosophic principles out of which it's built.
To return to a point jorg made earlier..may as well throw math in there..because math provides a language to describe and conceptualize all of this that is largely devoid of all of the weaknesses of natural language.
There's no reason that science couldn't provide determination for whether or not somethings conscious..and..frankly, it would be difficult to see how philosophy would do that -without- those empirical observations. Maybe science would "redefine" consciousness....relative to some traditional definition..but so what..the traditional definition may be in error. Similarly, so what if science would yield a conclusion that all reality consists of an objective physical existence and nothing more than that? When we need reference of more would be the time that became a problem.
Science isn't going to do any of that..however..none of it..without employing the philosophic principles out of which it's built.
To return to a point jorg made earlier..may as well throw math in there..because math provides a language to describe and conceptualize all of this that is largely devoid of all of the weaknesses of natural language.
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