General Philosophy

If some one were to write a Book, on philosophy and its most important , perplexing , intriguing, and mysterious questions, .....and this book consisted of 10 chapters, one on each greatly debated questions......what would be the names of each chapter? thanks for your replies,.....so i can get right to work on this book........jk

Rome split from Ancient Greece and became a greater nation. America split from England and became a greater nation. What we now call Physics and Chemistry used to be called Natural Philosophy. So Where, When, How and Why did Science split from Philosophy and do we think they are now the greater discipline ?

Roko's Basilisk is a famous thought experiment that supposes that, if sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence in the future is designed for the sole purpose of optimization, where it's powerful mind uses all of its power to determine the most effective way to optimize human output for our benefit, it may turn on all people who decided not to assist in its creation. Imagine that this intelligence has the power and sufficient knowledge of the universe to confidently predict every event that has ever occurred since the big bang, including all of human history and every thought any human has ever had. The intelligence would understand that itself is the greatest contrib…

Prompted by posts on another thread ("Can there be any intelligent science pursued without any philosophy?"), I'd like to pose the following: One thing I'd like to imagine is a debate between the philosophy students and science students. Each would be required to stay within their own discipline and argue for the value of each. Any science students using philosophy to defend science would be disqualified (or would lose). They could only prove the value of science using scientific and non-philosophical arguments. The philosophy students would use philosophical arguments to defend the value of philosophy.

"Here is a tree in the garden. And every summer it produces apples. We call it an apple tree. Because the tree apples. That's what it does. Alright, now here is a solar system inside a galaxy. And one of the peculiarities of this solar system,at least on planet earth, the thing peoples. In just the same way that an apple tree apples." - Alan Watts

I woke up one morning, and realized that I don't have an answer to questions such as how life started on earth, and how it evolves. I had nothing better to do, so I started to investigate it a bit, wrote 4 short essays, and published it on a blogger platform. Here they are: https://hrvojedj.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-origin-of-information.html https://hrvojedj.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-revision-of-origin-of-information.html https://hrvojedj.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-connection-between-thermal-food.html https://hrvojedj.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-game.html They also present my naturalistic philosofical views. If you feel like it, give me some f…

A Few Technologies ? I was noticing how the Technological Economy is really based on the discovery and use of only a handful of technologies that then lend themselves to constant improvements and refinements and such. Like Silicon Technology in Electronics and Integrated circuits and Microprocessors or the Internal Combustion Engine, or Jet Airlines, etc. These are fixed technologies that have become better and better and more refined (but Silicon Technology and Integrated circuits is a truly Free Lunch (Moore's Law), we went from 5,000 transistor Microprocessors in 1975 to 3 billion transistor Mircroprocessors in 2011), as if in reality, you can only discove…

As the title might imply, what's a game? That is, what allows us to unify seemingly disparate things like hopscotch and first-person shooters? Surely, seeking a universal definition to absolve us of our curiosity is a misguided endeavor. Creative society permits words the power to describe and denote experiences. It's not necessary that they seize them. So, in short, what's a satisfying working definition of 'game'? Or rather, what constitutes a game and what makes a game distinct from other artistic/entertainment media? My bloated attempt at setting even the most basic of boundaries for what makes a game quickly descended into what must be gibberish. Regardless, I pr…

I wonder what people would think of the following approach to viewing economics: all people contribute money to GDP when they spend it or give it to others. The effect is like a food-chain where the amounts of money changing hands snow-ball into ever larger sums. If you look at economics in this way, it would seem that the faster money concentrates (snow-balls) into larger amounts, the less people can participate in higher-class pricing/exchanges. In the simplest economy, there could be just two classes: 1) the masses who make and spend very small amounts of money and 2) the elite who serve the masses and concentrate the income they receive into very high expenditures…

You may know people who abhor the topic of philosophy, or regard philosophy as impractical. Whether or not you agree with this writer's particular philosophy, I think you might be hard pressed to find a more succinct expression of these premises: Philosophy deals with practical, 'real world' issues Everyone uses philosophy every day, whether they realize it or not The essay is entitled "Philosophy: Who Needs It". As of this posting, a Google search under "pdf philosophy who needs it" will lead you to it directly.

First of all I would like it to be known that these are my theories and educated guesses on a subject that has plagued mankind for a long time. If you have something to add or you disagree with something, please comment. happiness is something we allow situations in our lives to change while we all have the mental ability to keep it alive at all times. this can also be used to define human nature lol. an example of this would be to say that you would never be happy unless you lived out your dream which is false, or to say that a relationship ending will cause you to go into depression. This is also false. You cause the emotions. The situations could be percei…

Per my promise to Eise, the following is a copy of a post that I wrote many years ago. I copied it from another forum, and it should be considered as a first draft, as I can already see that I made changes in my ideas since that time. There is no reference to Established truths like Laws of Physics, Laws of Nature, Universals, or even Mathematics, and I had not yet determined that emotion is real, so there is no reference to Emotional truths. Please note that I was not looking to find truths, but looking to categorize and rate as to reliability the truths that I understood. So please consider: Like all philosophers, I have spent a lot of time contemplatin…

In the past, I came up with a type of philosophy called "Systems Interaction Hypothesis." It states that a given object is a "thing" or system or concept which can interact with other systems. Each interaction is known as an "event." Each event is considered a connection or point of a holistic relationship between systems. Systems are the same as the general definition of a system, which is "a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network." A class or a categorization would be considered a system. Using this philosophy/framework, you would define concepts and objects as systems and their interactions as events. You coul…

author : Kevin Burke email removed by moderator “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth”.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “ Truth has no manners. It is no respecter of persons. It wounds kings as deeply as commoners. It cuts down the high, and confirms the lowness of the low. It may dress up for formal occasions, but it does so only in order that it may more shockingly expose itself in front of the assembled company. And just as it respects no one, likewise there are few who respect it. But those who do are granted many favors -- power, understanding, dominion, and of course the honor of the unswerving hatred of the ignorant millions.” –John Bryan…

Hello, I am introducing a work of philosophy in which we propose (and I realize, these might sound absurd claims at first): Susanne Langer and Immanuel Kant philosophies can be linked together, to give us a complete philosophical model for the Human Brain. By applying this model to Darwin’s evolution, we are able to logically prove the Brain has to based on the model we know as Turing machines; By considering how the Brain perceives our reality, and by applying the Turing machine model to empirical physical evidence, we are able to demonstrate the Brain is a solution to link together general relativity and quantum mechanics; And, after all, …

I've read some books about buddhism. And I always thought that the "now" that those books emphasized on as the one "time" to focus on. The "time" between past and future. But it was only till I read "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" that this "now" actually means the picture you get before your 5 senses have a go at it. I think I understand what they mean with a priori images being the real immediate truth that is seen by humans. But when reality can only be seen when unprocessed by the human senses, how can it be sensed by a human being in the first place? Pirsig says that Phaedrus, the person he was before electroshocks, thought that an a priori imag…

Which occupation do you think is capable to create huge or almost infinite number of jobs in the future? Or unemployment will always grow due to automation and an eternal vocation is what majority of humans have to expect?

All A computational universe must be logically consistent and logically complete. If it weren't it would tear itself apart at the inconsistencies and pause at the incompletenesses and could not exist. < huge plug for book removed - no more ads please>

Can the enquiring spirit in us be ever quenched? e.g. 1. Suppose, science finds the fundamental particle...next question can be...What mechanism caused this fundamental particle?....or.....How it came about? If someone says, it has been always there...one can ask...What is the mechanism through which something can be eternal? and so on.... 2. Suppose, someone finds God and says that He/She/It exists eternally/necessarily...next question can be...Why only He is a necessarily existing creature and not some other one? or What mechanism leads to necessary existence? and so on.... In a nutshell, can questions ever end? Any thoughts, not necessarily serious …

Can anyone provide any evidence that our body is more real than our intangible thoughts, feelings, sensations and decisions? We know our body exists only because we infer its existence from our perceptions. Our mind is our primary datum and sole certainty.

It appears from my limited acquaintance that ,as far as we can tell events in the universe follow random paths (can we call them "paths" or are they "appearances?) I am thinking of spontaneous radioactive emissions where there (again to my limited knowledge) thee is no "interior" pattern to the ordering of events save for the half life laws that seem to be obeyed. What interpretation can one give to this order of things? I understand the Einstein was famously (and seemingly wrongly) outraged by the notion of pure randomness (not sure if it was in this context) but is it possible to welcome this state of things beyond the requirement …

Source: http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/05_relativism/relativism_transcription.htm 1. Argument for Relativism: Psychological 2. Argument for Relativism: Cultural 3. Argument for Relativism: Social Conditioning 4. Argument for Relativism: Freedom 5. Argument for Relativism: Tolerance 6. Argument for Relativism: Situations 7. Argument for Absolutism: Consequences 8. Argument for Absolutism: Tradition 9. Argument for Absolutism: Moral Experience 10. Argument for Absolutism: Ad Hominem 11. Argument for Absolutism: Moral Language Postscript: Cause and Cure Any comment? Excerpt: "Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day defined a good society…

If our Universe is infinite in time and space and physical reality preserves its key elements forever, does it mean that all people who once died are destined to resurrect somewhere in space and time and will practically never die?

It is the inherent nature of all things that they are a compilation of two different and distinct things. It is axiomatic that these two things are space and value. The value of any given thing being what it is, while the space is what it occupies. It is true that, abstract or otherwise numbers are a thing, therefore they must also contain a compilation of space and value. It is an axiomatic truth that space is the labeling of quantities of dimensions. It is an axiomatic truth that value is the labeling of quantities of existence, other than dimensions. It is an axiomatic truth that space and value exist in one of two forms. So that any given quantity of s…

If majority of people on Earth is a vegan, do you all think it will help with saving the environment? why or why not? To me, more vegans will mean less factory farming which is ruining our planet with excess release of carbon dioxide contributing to global warming, manure from animals causing water pollution and deforestation to make way for crops to feed livestock.