Hawking was correct that modern philosophy is dead; it died when it denied the existence of truth. Much of what goes by the name of philosophy today seems in fact to be psychology.
What you're saying is true, but take it a step further and speculate on what the rise of artificial intelligence will do to the intellectual climate. We will sink deeper, slouching from considering the wrong things to increasingly being unable to consider.
A very good point. Most modern philosophers are, in fact, not philosophers at all. AI limits individual curiosity by eliminating the search for knowledge. Perhaps a future article will be on this!
A few years ago I coined the term "STEMpire" to describe the nature of modern society, and this term seems to become more apt with each passing day. We must resist! The STEM fields have been dominant long enough to show us very clearly that they have no real answers for the most serious problems and questions of life. For that we need the humanities.
The humanities have contributed to their own decline by becoming politicized and hence more focused on imparting an ideology than teaching things of lasting value.
Hawking was correct that modern philosophy is dead; it died when it denied the existence of truth. Much of what goes by the name of philosophy today seems in fact to be psychology.
What you're saying is true, but take it a step further and speculate on what the rise of artificial intelligence will do to the intellectual climate. We will sink deeper, slouching from considering the wrong things to increasingly being unable to consider.
A very good point. Most modern philosophers are, in fact, not philosophers at all. AI limits individual curiosity by eliminating the search for knowledge. Perhaps a future article will be on this!
A few years ago I coined the term "STEMpire" to describe the nature of modern society, and this term seems to become more apt with each passing day. We must resist! The STEM fields have been dominant long enough to show us very clearly that they have no real answers for the most serious problems and questions of life. For that we need the humanities.
STEM creates atheists and evolutionists.
The humanities have contributed to their own decline by becoming politicized and hence more focused on imparting an ideology than teaching things of lasting value.