RE: Berkeley's argument for the existence of God
March 30, 2018 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2018 at 5:59 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 30, 2018 at 2:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Computing as we know it is entirely material. If you couldn't make a physical gate do what we expect, there would be no computing. How an immaterial gate might work....anyone's guess.
Speaking of....if I had access to the physical servers and the IO of posts I could tell you the -exact- mass and space of every idea discussed in this thread...and that would only be the beginning of the material specificity I could, then, employ.
You could probably work it out considering how much the daily passage of information on the internet weighs "0.2 millionths of an ounce" (whatever an ounce is supposed to weigh), "roughly the same as the smallest possible sand grain, one measuring just two-thousandths of an inch across" (bloody imperial measurements)
This doesn't of course include the hardware or the power plants and cabling required to power it.
How Much Does The Internet Weigh?
(March 30, 2018 at 4:13 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(March 30, 2018 at 1:39 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Yeah but in modern times, what does philosophy ever explain which then becomes a science? Not disputing that has this happened in the past. After all, even today any progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence becomes a field in its own right. But whenever people defend philosophy in this way they almost always refer to achievements several hundred years ago.
In modern times, there are some people who think we should reinstate compulsory prayer in schools.
Why, according to empirical data, is that a bad idea?
Why not implement theocracy instead of a democracy?
If only there were a field of study that addressed such questions...
Politics, psychology, sociology and (according to economists in the introduction to their books but at no other time afterwards) ... economics.
