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Who is the most brilliant philosopher of all time?

спрашиваетSteve Turnbull  · 5 ответов
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?

спрашиваетSteve Turnbull  · 3 ответа

electric lamp = wire, electron current, electromagnetic fields, light.interaction of electromagnetic fields and currents=consciousness= visualization of fields

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Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, School of Informatics, University of Sussex.

Would it be morally wrong to have sex with a sentient robot?

спрашиваетEdie Mullen  · 1 ответ
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
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, School of Informatics, University of Sussex.

Would it be morally wrong to kill a sentient machine?

спрашиваетTheQSTN.com Team  · 1 ответ
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
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University @GuyLongworth and Editor of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society @Aristotweets

To be or not to be, is that the question?

спрашиваетSteve Turnbull  · 1 ответ
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
Dr. Mark Hocknull, Canon Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral and Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln @LCChancellor

Would it matter if nobody believed in God?

спрашиваетIan Gittins  · 1 ответ
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
Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method, LSE, London

Why do people study philosophy?

спрашиваетGera Bogdanov  · 1 ответ
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
User of The Question

Does time really exist?

спрашиваетJim Butler  · 2 ответа
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?

спрашиваетJames Medd  · 1 ответ
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
PhD student, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method, LSE

What defines a morally bad action?

спрашиваетGidon Gautel  · 1 ответ
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