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Is the moral compass of an individual inherent or is this aspect of their nature acquired due to experience?
'Learn' from the perspective of nature, is almost synonymous with 'adapt'. See the point?
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AI singularity, and the transmission of intelligence
Imagine a electronic circuit which can launch thousands of nuclear weapons the moment it decides to give a signal. We have had that for 60 years now, but we just keep it under a human master switch.
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Is Truth the Primary Epistemic Goal?
In mathematics, this is also known by the 'formalism vs platonism' debate. You might want to check up the literature related to it.
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If we don't have free will, why was the quality of being conscious selected for?
We don't exactly understand how natural selection, and physics/chemistry go together. The Miller Urey experiment is the most we understand at the moment, but even that doesn't give any details of mechanism. So all we can do is speculate a lot.
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What is the philosophical status of the enlightenment project?
You can be a relativist, even while having firm convictions. I don't know if you have read Sherlock Holmes' 'Devil's Foot'. At the end when the man confesses to the torture and murder of his lover's brother, Holmes sympathizes with the murderer, doesn't he, even though he could have delivered him to the police, and witnessed against him. Relativism, is not an escape hatch, as you seem to think, but a way to humble oneself such that one can have a better grasp of what is going on. I would also argue that 'relativism' is what gave Europe secularism, but that is a big issue.
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What is the philosophical status of the enlightenment project?
For socio-political discourse, I think Rorty's pragmatism is the only hope we have. If the European wars of religion had firmly established secularism, why was 20th century Europe so concerned about the 'International Jew', and eliminating the 'bourgeoisie'. Why aren't Ukrainians 'secular' to the Russians? Secularism and any other political idea, should be understood in context, not for the sake of relativism or for religious polemics, but for the sake of intellectual honesty.
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What is the philosophical status of the enlightenment project?
I wouldn't dismiss any 'call to values' as 'imperialist'. The problem comes from the word 'assertion'. Sure, you should have free societies, and should be able to ask uncomfortable questions and disseminate ideas, and there should be absolute freedom on all those fronts. But there is no question of 'assertion'. How do you want to assert your values? Fill up a department with similar ideologues. Start wars to spread your 'ideals'. What does assertion mean in this context? Assertion, in a majority of contexts, implies a power claim, and postmodernists are right on that.
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What is the logical fallacy in assuming scientific method?
But the scientific method in and of itself is still a linguistic structure. It may be a highly successful one. But then this line would lead to the 'epistemology-ontology' issue. Again not suitable for the comment section.
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What is the logical fallacy in assuming scientific method?
Reliable predictions can be had even without the scientific method. 'Shared practical outcomes are as objective as they get.' If that is how you define objective we have no real difference. I would say, that the word objective should only be used within a syntactic system, and not easily for talking about the system itself. It is the 'formalism-platonism' debate, and we can't achieve much over a comment section. Cheers.
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