Frankly, I think this is bullshit. It ignores the sheer effort that involved in compressing, decompressing, and recompressing the whole history of conceptual innovation required to understand and debate ideas that remain contentious, while these debates are in process.
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I teach philosophy, and I can tell you that the dependence on names you deride is often the best way of mapping the dialectical terrain and allowing students to address points within it, by learning to recognise proximity to certain prototypical positions.
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“Science advances a funeral at a time”? More so that philosophy?
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Many philosophers build their castles on indefensible hills, because all the good ones are taken, and they need to put themselves on the map. There is no mechanism that in philosophy that will force them to abandon their castle.
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Likewise, most philosophy isn't necessarily branded as such. It's just thinking.
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On the other hand, I am not sure if there have been significant philosophical insights after Turing, in the sense that someone understood something of deep significance that nobody else had ever seen.
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https://conceptsinmotion.org/e-ideas/ is a Uni of Amsterdam project aiming to make concepts computable and trace their evolution thru time. I provided some input to Professor Arianna Betti, who leads it, at an early stage. An ambitious project I am watching with great interest!
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I'm also mapping concepts! I'm using a sort of expanded Pascal's triangle as a decision tree. Basically, at each level of question — why, when, how, who, and what — we answer in a material/contraction/past way, or energetic/expansion/future way.https://twitter.com/thewiseturtle/status/1124054499855937538 …
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Yup, the biggest problem I had with philosophy. They start arguing with authors and their followers instead of ideas. One person can also change stances over time as they learn and evolve, yet others argue with all of it, instead of one specific view.
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This "dead white guy" catalogue of "beliefs" that is called "philosophy" is only present in Western academia. Eastern philosophy, and non-academic philosophy is just what we humans with a prefrontal cortex do when we consider our place in the grand expanse of space~time.
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