Geez, leave it to me to miss the obvious connection.
Sorry about that. I’ll let you know if my face grows back.
Geez, leave it to me to miss the obvious connection.
Sorry about that. I’ll let you know if my face grows back.
Which I think speaks to this (having used ‘logic’ above when I probably should have said ‘reason’, the former now replaced below):
(I suppose the term ‘rationality’ would work also.)
Sorry Dale… no offense… call me pedantic or whatever, but…
We trust reason because it works – the same with many other things which are the result of evolution. The evolutionary algorithm is very effective at times. But is being a product of evolution sufficient for trust? No. There are other things resulting from evolution which do not work so well. Evolution finds fabulous solutions but it is hardly infallible.
Using a ruler to measure a computer does not make the ruler a super-computer. This argument is not valid. I don’t think we can even say that reason is sufficient for the study of nature – no more than the ruler is sufficient for evaluating a computer.
No. There is no evidence that there is anything supernatural about reason, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. That is a question on which our example of AI is quite helpful.
Or is it because that is the delusion that evolution has programmed you to accept, is the counterargument. The point is not really that reason doesn’t work, but that there is no good reason why it should. You cannot use reason to prove the validity of reason.
I think you missed the point.
AI uses logic, not reason. It does not decide what presuppositions to accept. Maybe it can examine what humans use as presuppositions and take a poll, so to speak, and then use them, but does it really make up its own presuppositions?
If we are not strictly the result of evolution, why should be trust logic?
Summer colds are a bummer aren’t they?
We, be – it’s all the same. Word meanings are arbitrary.
Ah, so is postmodernism ID, because it doesn’t!
Indeed. Where I come from be always say “we” to denote existence
Somehow I don’t think you’re going to like postmodernism if it means conceding that appeals to rationality can no longer count as a reason all must give up personal, subjective truths regarding such domains as jazz or God.
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