AI, Neuroscience, & Mind Uploading – Thoughts from a philosopher – John thinks that the advances in Neuroscience in the medium term future will quite literally blow our minds – though he is skeptical about mind uploading. He has some interesting things to say about how people think about intelligence and sentience too.
PZ Myers had this to say in response: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/09/07/a-biologist-and-a-philosopher-agree-on-something/
John posted this on his blog: http://evolvingthoughts.net/2014/09/even-more-videos-by-adam-ford/
– http://evolvingthoughts.net John is fascinated by science. It allows us to do things no ancient Greek (or West Semitic) thinker would have been even able to conceive of. It means we make fewer mistakes. Philosophy is, and ought only to be, in the service of knowledge (I’m sure somebody has said that before). Science is a good first approximation of that.
But scientists who reject philosophy, as if that very rejection is not a philosophical stance (probably taken unreflectively or on the basis of half-digested emotive appeals), them I have no time for as philosophers. They should perhaps stick to their last and not make fools of themselves.
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