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Ep. 5: Jay Richards, Ph.D: Philosophical Materialism

The Moral Imagination

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The Materialist Theorist Is Not a Materialist

If a philosophy entails that you don't exist, you have a very good reason not to believe that philosophy. The thing we know most directly and that every person knows most directly contradicts the materialist philosophy. We can't yet make a machine that can do the simple things that a three year old child can do with her hands. And so it also relates to this problem in robotics called Norwevex paradox after a robotics professor named Hans Morwevex. That doesn't follow any more than if you make a tractor strong and fast enough, it's going to become an ox.

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