Soren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher of the 20th century born in 1813 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He got his education at Copenhagen University to study theology with major practice areas in his career as philosophy and literature. He was a poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher. ...
Type 1: Reactive machines.These AI systems have no memory and are task specific. An example is Deep Blue, the IBM chess program that beat Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the 1990s. Deep Blue was able to identify pieces on a chessboard and make predictions, but because it had n...
What are the types of philosophy? What is Vedanta philosophy? What is philosophical aestheticism? Which philosopher gave Karl Marx the idea of the dialectic? What is Heidegger's phenomenology? What is naturalism in philosophy? What dialectic is thesis and antithesis? What is Husserl's phenomenology...
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As the philosopher Thomas Nagel noted, it must“be like” something to be a bat,but what that is we cannot even imagine—because we have no idea what it would be like to observe the world through a kind of sonar. We can imagine what it might be like for a human to do this (perha...
solipsism dates back to ancient Greece, where philosophers such as Protagoras and Parmenides questioned the nature of reality and the role of perception in shaping our understanding of the world. However, the modern concept of solipsism can be traced back to the work of philosopher René Descartes...
The philosopher Douglas E. Harding realised a version of nondualism when began really contemplating the view: ”[W]hat I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront terminating up...
So when we look at the world, first as babies and then as we grow, that's where our knowledge comes from.Our senses, our experiences serve as the foundation for our knowledge.Now, for a very different view, let's turn to another philosopher, René Descartes. ...
The debate of the existence of God had been active since before the first philosopher has pondered the question. Anselm’s Ontological Argument was introduced during the 11th century and had stood deductively valid until the 18th century. Then there are the arguments to aim disprove God, such ...
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