You are on a roll today. Scientific research is not the same as philosophical concepts.
You sound like an atheist. You can get all the PhDs you want. It doesn’t mean you have discovered anything new under the sun.
I’ll say it again, you can’t discover something more evil than evil. You can’t discover something more loving than love. You may have unique ways of displaying it in ways it hasn’t been shown before, but that doesn’t mean you’ve discovered something more beyond evil or love (as examples).
Philosophically, we still struggle and ask the same questions we’ve asked two thousand years ago. We just have different terminologies and re-branding and re-packaging methods to present them.
Wow. That’s a great answer. Yes, the question is, maybe to him it’s going to be an original thought because whatever he doesn’t know or didn’t know, once becomes discovered may disguise itself as an original thought only to find out later on that someone already thought of it 1500 years ago lol.
I’ve commonly experienced this thinking I came up with something nobody else had and found out it’s actually an old idea lol.
I would think that emergent systems theory as a model for consciousness would qualify, there are also a huge intersection between physics and philosophy raised by quantum mechanics, but these may be rejected by the OP seems to be argue that anything that in any way involves something that someone else thought of doesn’t count. So the physics of black holes has been old hat ever since Aristotle talked about why things fall. Perhaps he should consider the philosophical question of whether Scotsmen like salt in their porridge.
I guess I disagree that the idea that someone manufactured by humans could possibly be considered sentient is something that philosophers of historic times really contemplated.
When do you think the “original concepts” formed for some of the following fields of study?:
-Gender theory
-Macroeconomics
-Gene editing
-Cryptocurrency
-Rocket science
-Climate change
To say that people thousands of years ago had already contemplated these concepts seems to be taking such a broad definition of a concept that it is meaningless.
When is the last time that you think “original” thoughts actually occurred? Did philosophers from early civilizations even have any original thoughts if cavemen contemplated why they should or shouldn’t steal from their neighbour, or whether there was an afterlife?
Well, nobody (that I know of) has tried to kill all humans on Earth though, which might be close to do-able with nuclear weapons today. I’d consider that an atrocity greater than anything that’s happened in history.
I think I have a new and original philosophy regarding social media free source collaborating. None of the aspects of my philosophy are new but when put together they become somewhat of a new culture. Have just about given up hope of finishing my novel screen play on this as I am not much of a writer but I feel the philosophy contains solid and proven premises that when applied right could become a world force rivaled by none. The concept is based on motivations coming from an improved source of identity creating a culture of highly motivated individuals very passionate about what they do and very loyal to the cause.
Your OP limits the discussion to issues of philosophy - value judgements on stuff people make up. I agree, that’s a well worked field.
Around 4 centuries ago we began the transition from making stuff up to the process of discovery. That transition has resulted in our current ability to do things like communicate and accurately navigate over the entire face of the globe, read the human genome and accurately predict the gender of unborn children.
So, perhaps you are correct. If Philosophy offers nothing new it belongs on the trash pile of outmoded activities along with alchemy, astrology and the pre-natal prediction of gender using chicken guts.
I think this sort of proves of what is happening in our world.
Most of you are assuming that all these new theories are new philosophies but they aren’t. Yes, they are new scientific discoveries or information, but they do not or cannot create new philosophies that weren’t already in existence.
The focus we have has shifted from being philosophical to technological/scientific. This is supports the notion of “moving away from God” or man’s independence as he thinks he no longer requires God’s help or wisdom.
If you really think about it, if you are saying that we can invent or come up with things that even God never knew, you are ultimately saying that man is God and that God is not infinite or all-knowing. Now of course, this always gets into a religious debate because not everyone believes in God (whichever God you believe in).
This also connects to another debate (not in this forum) that I have always shared for over a decade and that is, humanity vs technology.
What I mean is, if you think about how far humans have evolved into terms of technological advancements, it is massive. We go from creating simple tools out of stones and wood carvings to creating nuclear weapons and spaceships that can travel into space. It’s a massive gap.
But if you think about how much humans have evolved or grown in the moral sphere (humanity), not much at all. We still struggle with the same things our cave men ancestors did…jealousy, anger, deceit, violence, stealing, lying, etc.
So while it is wonderful that technology has advanced so far, we humans have not. So instead of putting a sharp object into the hands of a fallen human being which is dangerous in itself…we are just increasing the stakes by putting WMDs into the hands of that same fallen human being. This why I came up with my own “escalation theory”. The basic premise of it is that no matter how much knowledge, technology, advancements we come up with…the fact that human depravity itself has not been dealt with means we are not better off than we actually think we are. You’re just playing higher stakes poker, that’s all. Ultimately, humanity is bent inward in itself, we WILL lead to our own destruction because it is in our nature until this can be dealt with, it is really a pointless game to play this “progress/advancement” game which is just an illusion of improvement and evolution.
We are too focused on how to put a man on mars, or how to build self driving cars, but yet we don’t even know how to love and forgive one another…the simplest and oldest concepts known to man.
It’s wonderful that we humans know such advanced new theories like:
-Gender theory
-Macroeconomics
-Gene editing
-Cryptocurrency
-Rocket science
-Climate change
as you put it… but while u do this, you (not specifically you but rhetorically), don’t even know how to love your parents and say I love you or I’m sorry.