Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-08 Thread Telmo Menzies
Sent from my iPad On 08.09.2013, at 22:28, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program. I don't have any problem with Popper's comments

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-19 Thread Telmo Menzies
Sent from my iPad On 19.08.2013, at 15:10, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, it's useful. I'm actually of the opinion that hypocrisy is our most important intellectual skill. The ability to advertise certain norms and then not follow them helped build civilization. Hi