Ai Makes Philosophy Honest

Try To Acquire The Weird Practice Of Savoring Your Mistakes, Delighting In Uncovering The Strange Quirks That Led You Astray. Then, When You Have Sucked Out All The Goodness To Be Gained From Having Made Them, You Can Cheerfully Forget Them And Go On To The Next Big Opportunity.

If The History Of Resistance To Darwinian Thinking Is A Good Measure, We Can Expect That Long Into The Future, Long After Every Triumph Of Human Thought Has Been Matched Or Surpassed By 'mere Machines,' There Will Still Be Thinkers Who Insist That The Human Mind Works In Mysterious Ways That No Science Can Comprehend.

Sometimes You Don’t Just Want To Risk Making Mistakes; You Actually Want To Make Them - If Only To Give You Something Clear And Detailed To Fix.

Churches Have Given Us Great Treasures Such As Music And Architecture. Whether That Pays For The Harm They Have Done Is Another Matter.

The Traditional View Of Purpose Says It Comes From On High, From God, From The Creator. Darwin's Idea Of Natural Selection Makes People Uncomfortable Because It Reverses The Direction Of Tradition. Whereas People Used To Think Of Meaning Coming From On High And Being Ordained From The Top Down, Now We Have Darwin Saying, "no, All Of This Design Can Happen, All Of This Purpose Can Emerge From The Bottom Up Without Any Direction At All."