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Science came along and made much of philosophy obsolete, especially the parts that are now directly addressed by science and engineering projects.

For your comment to make sense it would have to include some context of computer science and artificial intelligence research, a significant amount of which is directly applicable to the topic you mention.

It's not that you are dumb, you are just being willfully ignorant. I'm not an expert on machine learning but I do know enough to say confidently that there is a lot of research about building world models from sensory data.






> Science came along and made much of philosophy obsolete, especially the parts that are now directly addressed by science and engineering projects.

Science (natural sciences) was originally known as "natural philosophy", it was just a branch of philosophy that happened to be successful enough to stop being called philosophy. So arguably there's still a huge amount of value in the philosophical ideas and attitudes that led to such important discoveries.


Oh, I agree on the ignorant part, but you can believe me it is not willed. I very much like to be educated on this because nothing I have read - yet - touched these fundamental problems with a ten-foot pole.

I have elaborated in a sibling comment. I do not dare to ask you to consider it because it is quite loquacious, but in the off-chance you want to indulge in some armchair philosophy you can join me in my pedantry and enlighten a lost soul.




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