Questions tagged [natural-philosophy]
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Final Steps and Zeno's Paradox
In the SEP article on supertasks, it states that:
Max Black (1950) argued that it is nevertheless impossible to complete the Zeno task, since there is no final step in the infinite sequence. The ...
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Who was the first philosopher to describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
Who was the first philosopher (e.g., Greek or pre-Socratic) to define or describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
In your answer, first discusses
the natural vs. artificial distinction (e.g....
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
Time is treated in Relativistic Physics as a pattern of events laid out in a continuum. In philosophy it is usually related to change which physicists partly understand as "time's arrow".
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Is there a need for a new field of natural-practical philosophy?
Natural philosophy is now generally known as physics. Some ancient universities still call it natural philosophy. But all of science could be included under the term, natural philosophy. There is also ...
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Where is it that I go when I dream? Part 2
The body is often referred to by some as a "Temple". If it is a Temple, then to be awake is like standing outside of same during the day and to have a dream is like entering the foyer of it ...
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What does "sense" mean in "A sense of the Future" title?
In Zoltan Torey's The Conscious Mind, the author discusses the epigenesis of language:
Characterizing human language by its construction, linguists constantly treat the atomic units in our speech, ...
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How can nature without self-awareness and intelligence create living beings with self-awareness and intelligence?
Look at the nature around you. Nature does not have intelligence and self-awareness, but it has created living beings with intelligence and self-awareness (an example of which is us humans). ...
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"All there is are cells" as a philosophical school of thought
Like atomists since Demokrit and Lucretius believe that all matter is made out of atoms, biologists since Schleiden and Schwann believe that all living matter is made out of cells.
But since atomism ...
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What is the bridge between Agrippa's and Descartes' mindsets? What to read to understand the radical change
After Reading a couple of works by Descartes (XVI century), I am now reading "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by Cornelius Agrippa (around 1530). The difference in mindset and worldview is ...
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What is the difference between Humeans and primitivist approaches in relation to the laws of nature?
The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between Humeans who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter and non-Humeans (primitivists) who think that laws ...
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Is there space even though there is only color, not objects? (re-question)
We can see black color when there’s no light at all. What I wonder is that there is concept spacetime even though there are no objects, but only color. I mean, does black color occupy the “space” (...
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What is "natural"?
The term "natural" is often used by people who have faith in "natural" things, by marketers promoting a product, etc.
However, what is the definition of "natural"? ...
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I know Survival of the fittest is realistic. But is it morally ethical?
Survival for the fittest and extinction for the weakest.
I know that should be the way.
But ethically if you think about it just because it happens in reality, does that statement make it morally ...
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How does science treat supernatural claims?
The following claim X,
Something had a round trip from the Earth to the Mars within 1 second
might be treated by science as a supernatural claim because it violates the natural law (i.e. speed limit ...
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Was Luhmann influenced by Schelling?
Just wondering. I know little about Schelling and was reading a commentary by Forster on his philosophy of nature. Some of the ideas, such as "irritability" and production of the Umwelt ...
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