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Philosophy, Not Science
To channel limited resources we must answer questions such as ‘What is more important?’ and ‘What is good?’ And these are not scientific questions. Science can explain what exists in the world, how things work, and what might be in the future. By definition, it has no pretensions to knowing what should be in the future. Only religions and ideologie
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To be frank, science knows surprisingly little about mind and consciousness. Current orthodoxy holds that consciousness is created by electrochemical reactions in the brain, and that mental experiences fulfil some essential data-processing function.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
I’d argue that Science is the process of moving beliefs along the Faith - Math spectrum. It adds explanatory power to our various beliefs so we have knowledge closer to Math to hang those beliefs on and do not need to rely as much on Faith. There is still an element of Faith involved, but the more science we do around an idea, the more Math-y we sh... See more
Infinite Play • Leaving the Church of Science
Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) thinks studying philosophy is more important for entrepreneurs than an MBA.
Reid is co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock, podcaster, author, and early backer of @OpenAI.
But before he did any of these things, he almost became a philosophy professor with a specific focus on Wittgenstein's theories of language a... See more
unpredictable. Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.