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Originally posted by cojak View PostAnd as a quick quiz, what area of computer science relates directly to philosophy?*
*Gibbon can tell me if my answer's wrong, but I don't think it is.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGive it a rest with trying to be deep. It's obvious you don't know what the fook you are talking about, so you're just coming over as a pretentious knob.
HTH.Originally posted by d000hg View PostNominate for most ironic post of the week.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGive it a rest with trying to be deep. It's obvious you don't know what the fook you are talking about, so you're just coming over as a pretentious knob.
HTH.
Cue pathetic attempts at insult to prove my point.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGive it a rest with trying to be deep. It's obvious you don't know what the fook you are talking about, so you're just coming over as a pretentious knob.
HTH.
stick to things you know something about , like er...teeth.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postand why are they insisting on a hierarchy when it should be attributes ?
HTH.
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and why are they insisting on a hierarchy when it should be attributes ?
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostAs I sit here, looking at the screen, I get a beautiful insight into the way philosophy and computing interact and are related.
Why am I here ?
Is this really what its all about ?
Is there a higher purpose ?
Shall I have my second boiled egg now ?
Yes and/or no.
No and/or yes.
Yes, before it gets cold.
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As I sit here, looking at the screen, I get a beautiful insight into the way philosophy and computing interact and are related.
Why am I here ?
Is this really what its all about ?
Is there a higher purpose ?
Shall I have my second boiled egg now ?
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Originally posted by cojak View PostYou're both probably right but I was thinking of Ontology.
There are things that science can't currently explain. Quantum Theory for example. QED is great for calculations. But it doesn't actually explain what's going on.
Anything that emerges from chaotic systems, may well be unexplainable. What exactly is so special about 3.7 (Period doubling bifurcations). Emotions, morality may be emergent phenomena.
Of course, you may say that these will eventually be explainable by science. But that's a philosophical perspective. You can only prove something is explainable by providing an explanation. (Echos of the Halting Problem there). And even if you have an explanation, you can get into an infinite regression of "why?".
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Originally posted by cojak View PostI thought that physics was an evolutionary branch of philosophy (if I remember Sophie's world correctly).
All other science branches were seen to be sub-areas of philosophy.
At least this was the picture with the ancient greeks.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post'Looking happy' could be a human thing sure, but that wasn't my example. Is happiness reserved for us? Who knows. I suspect not, as this is the reward for doing something right, IMO and it seems to make sense for the reward to be present for other species too. Smiling, I guess, expresses this for others to appreciate and may be limited to social species, or us alone.
What is love but a mechanism to bond partners and rear offspring? Is that love exists in other species a contentious issue? Do we find it hard to accept that other animals can feel 'our' emotions too?
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