OK, here's a question. My talents, such as they are, lie in the area of thinking and writing. From a humanitarian point of view, what are the most useful topics I could devote them to?
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Leibnitz also believed in 'monads' ...
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I wonder how Leibniz would have reacted to the thought that our idea of time can be described as the lawful accumulation of the correlation of information content across monads, and if such laws could allow recasting the notion of prestabilized harmony in a mechanical way.
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I fear only a very conventional mind would think that.
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You seem to have a response to my doubts on your mind: Which important philosophical breakthroughs of the last two generations were made by philosophers or even due to philosophers? Math/CS and physics continue to be philosophically productive, but the communities diverged?
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I suspect no one will understand these „truths“ then. Pretty worth less to the human mind and our world. However I feel like I agree from a philosophical point of view.
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Why? Using a radio is simple, understanding how it works is possible, discovering how to make one is hard.
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You were supposed to validate, not solve :)
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The god of philosophy requires me to tell the truth to the best of my ability
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Sorry Josha, but thats bull (or taking the "thinking" part too very literally) Theres plenty thats happening out there that you can read about (eg here, or in academic papers), and put your head to and come to -at the very least -your own conclusions to. World needs more of that!
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philosophy and discovery are like driving and drinking. philosophers do not discover, they try to think things through. there can hardly be an end to that. if leipniz had a a a pocket calculator he would have been disappointed by the result of square root of 2.
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