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It's weird when you read about tech advances that are so profound, you have to stop and consider the philosophical implications. I have a dime on my desk that p
by jorjordandan 12y ago
It's weird when you read about tech advances that are so profound, you have to stop and consider the philosophical implications. I have a dime on my desk that probably weighs 2 grams... something that small could contain more raw data than a person could possibly read in their entire life... that could contain 1.4 million hours of cd quality audio. Insane!
- ikeboy 12y agoWhat does that have to do with philosophy?
- valarauca1 12y agoConsidering and quantifying the some total of your actions in life is largely philosophical in nature. Yes its not writing a paper on the applications of Friedrich Nietzsche in 2015, but everyone also isn't an academic. Much like figuring out how much to tip your waiter is a mathematical exercise. Just one that might not shake the foundations of academic mathematics. Just because territory is well travel, doesn't mean everyone has walked there.
- ikeboy 12y agoBy that definition, everything is philosophy.
- valarauca1 12y ago>everything is philosophy. I know a more then one prof who'd agree with that statement.
- benkillin 12y agohttp://xkcd.com/903/ http://xkcd.com/903/ "Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at 'Philosophy'."
- skosuri 12y agoI think when we were doing the work it was largely philosophical for us to. The project was pretty simple practically.
- jorjordandan 12y agoThat is a great philosophical question! To answer it you might have to consider, What is philosophy? and, What is data?, and What is information?