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Aemun
 
Reply Mon 11 Jan, 2010 01:45 am
I'm half way through my first year in Phil and Psyc degree. I'm 29 so a late starter by most people's standards. I'm interested in metaphysics, epistemology and ideas such as the dual appearance of all knowledge e.g. are we in the room, is the room outside of us, or, is that a cup or not not a cup? Ofcourse I realise that the answer is both at the same time but I wonder how far our logical thinking allows us to see this fact. We are embedded in a subjective universe after all and so is causality an illusion? What would happen if time went backwards?

I'm also interested in consciousness and the objective/subjective divide of knowledge. Can we create artificial intelligence and what are the requirements? Is consciousness epiphenomenal? Afterall 'zombies' are not hard to imagine.

Metaethically, I recently decided to be an anti-realist. I'm probably taken to existentialism although I remain with doubt.

I look forward to our debates. :flowers:
 
jeeprs
 
Reply Mon 11 Jan, 2010 03:39 am
@Aemun,
Hi Aemun. I also started a university degree with those two subjects when I was 29. That was a good while ago now. I got into university as an Adult Entrant on the grounds of a comprehension test, most of which was about Bertrand Russell's splendid essay 'Mysticism and Logic', and mostly stayed with that subject thereafter.

Actually I remembered a funny story the other day. My first-ever Uni assignment was failed. It was a psych essay. The topic was about different types of intelligence testing. I addressed the question of whether intelligence was something that could be tested. I got a two-word comment 'Wrong department' (i.e. I had submitted a Phil essay in the Psych dept.) Later on I did another Psych essay on the topic of Altered States of Consciousness. This time I got a High Distinction, and another two-word comment: 'very brave'.

Anyway, welcome to the forum, it is a great place and there are lots of very interesting people who contribute.
 
Leonard
 
Reply Tue 12 Jan, 2010 02:54 pm
@Aemun,
Hello there. Welcome to the forum.
 
jgweed
 
Reply Tue 12 Jan, 2010 04:14 pm
@Aemun,
You would not be an existentialist if you didn't doubt about its positions, since it is a matter of choice for which you must be responsible. Since existentialism is an "open-ended" philosophy, it can accommodate all sorts of perspectives.
Welcome to Philforum!
John
 
 

 
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