Tag: philosophy
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AI, the super-rich and the end of freethinking
I cannot hide that I was inspired by the article on Freethinkers International. My original idea was meant to show how the super-rich obedient AI is molding our mental processes so those who rule us are securely conducting their immoral business. However, the great idea is that the world of robots and AI also means…
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Why even a modern conservative cannot be a freethinker?
I post this article both on my blog and Freethinkers International. And I am sure my own blog more than aware readers have their opinion already formed. Yet, the ongoing debate on Freethinkers International has provoked me to write this piece. We live in megacities, use electricity, have microchips, atomic bombs, high-speed trains, however, we…
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Philosophy should stop talking about free will. It is none of its business
Philosophy couldn’t even come up with its own definition for the thousands of years of its own existence and they school us what definition of free will is. Whom we can imagine when saying the word “philosophy”? For example Willard Van Orman Quine, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bertrand Russell, and even Martin Heidegger. Everything can be…
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Why are anarchism and communism utopian?
Just like philosophy (or its continental side) or religion political ideologies don’t reflect scientific progress. When anarchism and communism came into existence there was no evolutionary theory. People believed in a blank state. People are born like blank sheets of paper. It just depends on how you raise them. Of course, people are selfish but…