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Poll: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
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[Serious] Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
As we move into a more and more advanced age developing our philosophical understanding could help develop better our use of the Turing complete space computers offer. This might involve over time improving and developing our understanding and experimenting with different axioms to see how they play out and compute and also to see if we kind find more optimal approaches to some problems we have by developing philosophy further.
People who think philosophy is simply about questioning if a spoon really is a spoon are missing the wider scope of mind progress in philosophy can offer.
Quite frankly right now with physics struggling to keep up with the latest discoveries about the universe the intellectual community could do with throwing a bit more philosophy into the debate to improve open mindedness and perspective development preparing scientific minds that bit better to embrace new discoveries more a get theorising as to why reality is coming up with such results.
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RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study? - by highdimensionman - February 22, 2022 at 2:58 am

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