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Originally Posted by Unright
How exactly could you program philosophy without bias? Aren't all philosophies essentially biased towards themselves? Isn't having a bias a pilosophy in itself?
Go to any religious section of any bookstore or library, it's filled with books claiming to be the only book you will ever need.
Are you just trying to test the cliche that history repeats itself?
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You can program a philosophy/religion into a computer unbiased by just inputting the facts, books, whatever as they are, no commentary or abreviating or deviating from the texts. What I mean is don't program in one as better or truer than any other.
I do believe history does go in cycles, but no, this would not be a test to see if history repeats itself because it doesn't. The cycles do but each time man progresses intellectually, mechanically, societally.
No, like I said my purpose would be to see how accurate the computer would be in its predictions. I think if programmed without bias in any form just the facts, that it would be fairly accurate. Much moreso than anything else out there.
And perhaps by those predictions we could see where technology and society will be 500 years from now.
To me it is just a very interesting topic that I like to think about every now and then. I don't understand why people just can't let their minds wonder about the possibilities. Why so many have to argue and become offensive over it. Is not the whole purpose of philosophy the expansion of mind and to ask what if? That's all I am doing here.