From: Brian Manning Delaney (b-delaney@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 04 1999 - 21:34:28 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote,
>> You're in over my head here, since I've yet to
>> read either of them (though Russell is in the
>> library), I'd have to defer to Max. My
>> philosophy pursuits always seem to get side-tracked
>> pending other nearer term stuff. I suspect I'll
>> end up doing the cram course the week before I'm
>> scheduled to upload, then just as I'm about to
>> step into the transfer chamber, it will hit me
>> -- "Oh no, this process is pointless too!"
> Logically, existence cannot have a purpose,
> because teleology assumes an entity external to
> the goal meta-system under consideration.
Maybe, but an individual's life can't be argued on these grounds
not to have a purpose (since there are things external to it).
> I think Transhumanists become their own worst
> enemies in proportion as they fail to transcend
> philosophy to embrace science, especially the
> science of subjectivity.
Why?
Seems odd, since science is a subset of philosophy.
Best,
Brian.
-- Brian Manning Delaney <b-delaney@uchicago.edu> (No need to CC replies to me.)
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