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Singularity and Rapture

March 3, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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A few quotes from Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto where he compares the idea of singularity with rapture. http://www.jaronlanier.com/ “The coming Singularity is a popular belief in the society of technologists. Singularity books are as common in a computer science department as Rapture images are in an evangelical bookstore.” “(Just in [...]

COMP Theology

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Messages from the everthing list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/2b92d17d59aaa178 19.02.2012 15:52 Bruno Marchal:  I don’t remember having said that to Craig. On the contrary I criticize him for introducing a new word without ever defining it. But “theology” means “Study of Gods” like biology is study of life. It is a simple word that everyone can understand, and [...]

Absolute Presupposition

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In his lectures Was ist Philosophie? http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=80 Prof Hoenen has discussed R. G. Collingwood and his work Essay on Methaphysics. I like here a lot the term Absolute Presupposition. From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/collingwood/ “From the mid-thirties onwards Collingwood’s work increasingly engaged in a dialogue with the newly emerging school of analytic philosophy. In An [...]

Turing Test and Female Hormones

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My message to the everything-list (for discussion follow the link)  http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/99e8321645a80200 On 16.01.2012 10:24 Bruno Marchal said the following: … > > Note also that Turing invented his test to avoid the philosophical > hard issue of consciousness. In a nutshell Turing defines > “consciousness” by “having an intelligent behavior”. The Turing test > is [...]

Reason, Free Will, and the Big Bang

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I have recently listened to Kontroversen in der Philosophie by Prof Hoenen: http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=93 One of the controversies there was the question whether the Universe if eternal or not. Recently I have employed the logic from the lectures on the everything list http://groups.google.com/group/t/thread/ba5f90b7e68bccf when there was a comment about determinism. I hope that the dialog below shows [...]

The Making of a World View

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In Die Zeit there was a paper Das Making-of eines Weltbildes http://www.zeit.de/2011/34/Experiment-Physik-Philosophie “A philosopher observes a physicist  in the search for knowledge – and a journalist does the philosopher. An experiment.” A books has been mentioned where there is a sociological study on how physicists and molecular biologists make science: Karin Knorr Cetina Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make [...]

Theorien der Wahrheit

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I have finished listening the course of Prof Hoenen Theorien der Wahrheit: http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=23 Slides: http://www.philosophie.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/lehrstuhl_hoenen/materialien/materialien-zur-vorlesung/files/vlws0809-theorien-der-wahrheit.pdf The course is made by discussing the next texts: Aristoteles, Metaphysik Bertrand Russell, Wahrheit und Falschheit Anselm von Canterbury, Über die Wahrheit Gottlob Frege, Logische Untersuchungen G. W. Leibnitz, Fünf Schriften zur Logik und Metaphysik A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic [...]

Feyerabend against Science

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In his lectures Theorien der Wahrheit http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=23 Prof Hoenen has considered also Science in a Free Society (Erkenntnis für freie Menschen) by Paul Feyerabend. I got interested as I like Feyerabend. I have found that one of the latest Feyerabend’s book was The Tyranny of Science  and I have found in Internet a text Paul [...]

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