/lit/ - Literature

>>6016172
>Reading a book that got btfo by Godel decades ago
Nah I will stick to category theory, thanks though.

>>5996048
For example, Dawkins does this, but I don't see the same wonder in his eyes when he is talking about evolution, that I see when I watch a Feynman video. He seems to find more pleasure in appearing intelligent than in thinking itself.

Philosophy can be broken up roughly into:
1. Logic
2. Epistemology
3. Ethics
4. Metaphysics
5.Aesthetics
6. Political

Logic is a formal science.

Epistemology: Logic+Scientific Method destroys any doubt in our knowledge.

Ethics has been solved by neuroscience and evolutionary biology, we can quantify pleasure and pain and determine rules to maximise the former. Resolved.

Metaphysics: Work in progress, see Theoretical Physics (String Theory related developments in particular).

Aesthetics: Symmetry (Mathematics), Pleasure (Biology). Resolved.

Political: We may set our political/social goals as axioms and then determine the best system of rules to reach those goals. Why those goals? Well you chose them. Resolved.

Philosophy is dead.

>mfw a diehard "lets write off the scientific method because I just wikipediad objectivity" philosophy undergrad wanders into my laboratory and tells me my cancer research is pointless because I can't objectively prove stem cells exist.

"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."
-- Richard Feynman

"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." -- Richard Feynman

"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." -- Richard Feynman

>>3204568
>3. Smoke pot every single day of your life. Your life will improve in multiple ways; you'll understand when you start.

>mfw