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Hmmm... I bet The US pentagon knows how to create exceptional software (they need to because of all the cyber threats). What's stopping them from sell...

What kind of business do you think governments can reliably undertake?

I shall call it a "democratic corptocracy!" :party:

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I do not know about forced labor, but doing away with taxation and relying on bonds is a horrible idea, and will leave the government massively underf...

https://youtu.be/XPGIMCmpfxU

In France, you gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.”

https://www.openculture.com/2013/07/jean_searle_on_foucault_and_the_obscurantism_in_french_philosophy.html

There's direct democracy and then there's represenative democracy. Just pointing out a useful distinction.

But in academic setting, test scores and criticism from professors are meant weed out the kinds of people who spout nonsense. (Perhaps not.) Yes, espe...

But there are philosophies right now that negatively affect the world, why not focus on them?. Hindsight is also 20/20, do you think Marx and Nietzsch...

But it's not the philosophers job to worry about that.

If you misinterpret them, yes.

What do you mean "do this without conceptual clarification"? That's just a general outline of philosophy, there are many kinds of philosophy, not all ...

I dont see this as a good objection to a theory. You can twist a lot of innocent theories to your menovelant means, not just social Darwinism. That's ...

Free market capitalism?? The eugenics can promote free market idealogy keeping in mind that a lot of people who can't compete (and he will deem them a...

I'm allowed to be critical. Whatever. :sad:

He could test eugenics on animals? Get rid of the "bad" fish in an aquarium.

So physics and biology answer Mary's room. Brilliant. :party:

Create a computer simulation to show what happens to society if you employ eugenics.

What about biology? How does my brain perceive red?

It's not poetry if you include critical reasoning.

How do you know? I don't trust the YouTube video.

A reason for what?

If it were that simple we wouldn't be spending so much money researching consciousness. The reality is, we don't really know what perceiving "red" mea...

Hmm.. I bet that's controversial and an oversimplification.

Yeah, computer simulation.

Because it seems like describing red scientifically is different than perceiving red. The word "learning" is thrown into the conversation, and I think...

Are these two statements equivalent?

A child knows what red is.

Can your prove that?

What is a gifted Eugenicist?

Not in the same sense that we learn math. To say Mary learns anything we first need to broaden our concept of learning.

I didn't know that.

Correct me if I am wrong, but Eugenics was a movement by scientists and government to create a "perfect society" by controlling the supposed "genetic ...

I'll say this: Your way of describing philosophy can be very useful for communication on the Philosophy Forum, but there's no god-like figure that can...

Have you successfully stopped nonsense from propagating? If so, my hat is off to you.

That's true. :lol:

Different languages have a different feel to it. Even if you get a good translation, you can still misunderstand the author.

I'm against this proposition. Suppose the author of a text intended you to understand it a particular way. I like to read something the way it was int...

It has already been done! I like the Britannica article on philosophy Link. Analytic philosophy (which you seem to be advocating) is merely a modern c...

I like to leave philosophy open and creative. Having predispositions on the proper way to do philosophy, such as demanding clarity all the time, is ve...

It's your way or the highway. I see.

My desires about philosophy isn't relevant.

I am not saying that either. All I said not everyone agrees that philosophy is about clarifying concepts. How philosophy should be done is a different...

No. It is your belief that philosophy is about clarifying concepts, not mine.

How? Because you say so?

Not everyone agrees with that.

I'll take your word for it.

I ancient Hebrew and Aramaic vowels are not shown in the lettering. It's assumed that the reader can decipher the vowel sounds on their own.