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The Future of Philosophy is CYBORG

Phil Torres imagines a biotech way of solving intractable philosophical problems.

There’s a long history of philosophers bemoaning the apparent insolubility of certain philosophical problems, including consciousness, knowledge, meaning, free will, and the self. Many leading thinkers have indeed gestured at a chasm between our intellectual capacities and philosophy’s aim, namely the truth regarding the ultimate nature and workings of reality. We are apparently cognitively ill-equipped to tackle the problems that philosophy poses, yet one generation after another strives to reach the false horizons before us.

In the face of this limitation some philosophers have adopted a kind of ‘stoic resolve’. As Thomas Nagel writes, “if truth is our aim, we must be resigned to achieving it to a very limited extent, and without certainty.

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