Who is the most brilliant philosopher of all time?
It’s a question that forces us to try to answer what can’t be answered. This can be a healthy exercise if we look beyond the unhealthy... Читать далее
Education: doctor of clinical laboratory sciences and PhD of immunology.
Interests: abstraction of how thinkers think from their works. Pattern recognition.
Will the 'hard problem' of consciousness ever be solved?
electric lamp = wire, electron current, electromagnetic fields, light.interaction of electromagnetic fields and currents=consciousness= visualization of fields
This really splinters into lots of sub-questions. The main thing is whether the robots are sentient, and then it depends on what one means by ‘having sex’, which covers a multitude of... Читать далее
The question as you pose it is actually quite worrying. You could have asked: could there be any circumstances under which it would be morally okay to kill a sentient machine? If you were... Читать далее
I’d begin by saying that the question seems to be intended as ambiguous. On one reading, it’s a question about suicide: “Given that I’m alive now, how much longer should I live? Should I... Читать далее
On a philosophical level, you could turn this question around and ask, say, would it matter if nobody believed in Italy any more? In a sense, no: because Italy would still exist. So from... Читать далее
Well, one of the things that you learn from studying philosophy is to make sure you have a question straight before starting to answer it. As it stands, this is an empirical question... Читать далее
I once had the existence of time conclusively disproved to me by that renowned temporal physicist, Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan. Back in the ’90s I was interviewing him for The... Читать далее
Philosopher, lecturer at New York University and Open University, author of works including Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide and The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Puzzles @flossopher
When is it morally right to kill another human being?
We could adopt the brave stance of insisting that it is always wrong to kill another human being —yet also sometimes right. That is, in the realm of morality, maybe an action can be both... Читать далее
This is perhaps the hardest question of all, and I have no idea what the answer is!
Different proposals have been made by moral philosophers regarding how to reply to this question. First... Читать далее