From: Brian Manning Delaney (bdelaney@infinitefaculty.org)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 01:34:23 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> The future of transhumanism looks bright to me.
> (Even brighter if we can manage to avoid wasting too much time with
> religiosity, politics, romance, sports, or philosophy.)
I disagree. And, as Robert Bradbury put it in a diff. connection
RB> "This is as far as I go buddy" (said
RB> with a John Wayne accent).
A quicky, tho:
[....]
> If not, I suggest you stop making
> this claim [that science is a subset of
> philosophy].
I have grounds: philosophy is about truth (some would put even more broadly), by
definition. Sci. is about only _empirical_ truth (by definition, yours in fact).
Looks like a relation of subordination to me. Don['t see any controversy. Don't
know why you do.
Ciao,
Brian.
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