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The way in which human [[Knowledge]] is best view as a [[Evolution]] process is found in this quote by Sellars:
 
The way in which human [[Knowledge]] is best view as a [[Evolution]] process is found in this quote by Sellars:
  
Empirical [[Knowledge]], like its sophisticated extension, science is rational … because it is a self-correcting enterprise which can put ''any'' claim in jeopardy, ''thought not all at once''.<ref>W. Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality. (1963) p. 170 ISBN </ref>
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  because it is a self-correcting enterprise which can put ''any'' claim in jeopardy, ''thought not all at once''.<ref>W. Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality. (1963) p. 170 ISBN </ref>

Revision as of 11:03, 10 August 2018

Full Title or Meme

Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience and education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Context

A significant number of philosophers have convinced themselves that there is no way that a computer could ever be said to have human Knowledge of any subject.

  • Searls: The Chinese room
  • Haldane: Chemical factory in our brain

Actually I hope that they are correct for I would certainly never trust a computer that had been trained using human behavior

I hope for some thing better

When ethicists talk about building an ethic into a computer program

Microsoft learned the hard truth that letting a computer learn on the internet was perhaps the worst decision that they have ever made

Problem

Solution

The way in which human Knowledge is best view as a Evolution process is found in this quote by Sellars:

  Empirical Knowledge, like its sophisticated extension, science is rational … 
because it is a self-correcting enterprise which can put any claim in jeopardy, thought not all at once.[1]
  1. W. Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality. (1963) p. 170 ISBN