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>>18610165
And another one

>Spinoza (1634–77) is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers
how is it not hume? just from his prose alone you can tell hume was a delightful person. spinza tortured insects.

>>15165521
http://10thingswrongwithenvironmentalthought.blogspot.com/2011/07/kant-makes-me-sick-russell-moore-and.html
>In a number of philosophical memoirs Bertrand Russell describes his break from the Kantian (and Hegelian) tradition in which he trained. Russell’s first book, an extension of a fellowship dissertation, took up the Kantian question, “how is geometry possible?” An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry elaborated a “mainly Kantian” theory of geometry
>As Russell noted, this was a claim subsequently undermined by Einsteinian General Relativity. On later reflection, he claims that his book does not contain “anything valid”
>The retreat from Kant was not merely a matter of scholarly progression. For Russell, there was an emotional appeal to setting Kant aside. He records it as “a great liberation, as if I had escaped from a hot-house on a wind-swept headland”
>he “hated the stuffiness involved in supposing that space and time were only in my mind”
>indicating that he finds “displeasing” any attempts to “humanize the cosmos”. “Kant made me sick”, Russell reported to Alan Wood.

Is the belief that we'll be able to upload our minds into computers basically just dualism 2 electric boogaloo?

Has it produced insights into math or language like it was hoped to?