{"id":2625,"date":"2011-12-31T01:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T06:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2011-12-31T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T06:31:54","slug":"why-philosophy-and-questioning-our-reality-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/why-philosophy-and-questioning-our-reality-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"#IWasThinking S01E03: Why philosophy and questioning our reality is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We should also be looking for the next leap in philosophy trends, we need new forms of interpreting reality to have a leap in technological progress. (just the way the introduction of &#8220;science&#8221; (scientific method, testability) propelled us to the world in which we are now)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKJywQCIw6g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learning and living philosophy is REALLY important. Just as we evolve in every other knowledge field, we must evolve as philosophers. When some philosophers decided that reality had to be questioned (tested) we came up with the scientific method, which brought about more innovation in the last 200 years than in thousands before it. Just because we started questioning our reality differently than before (like shit was made by god and stuff, we learned stars where massive balls of hydrogen and helium collapsing into heavier elements which make up most of what you and I are made of.<\/p>\n<p>What will the next breakthrough in philosophy bring to the aid of our creativity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should also be looking for the next leap in philosophy trends, we need new forms of interpreting reality to have a leap in technological progress. (just the way the introduction of &#8220;science&#8221; (scientific method, testability) propelled us to the world in which we are now) Learning and living philosophy is REALLY important. Just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[770],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Gl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2628,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/why-philosophy-is-important-the-movie\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":0},"title":"Why philosophy is important (the movie)","author":"gubatron","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2901,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/can-the-brain-of-a-man-be-programmed-by-man-conceived-language-and-programmers\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":1},"title":"Can the brain of a man be programmed by man-conceived language and programmers?","author":"gubatron","date":"December 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When you try to express thought, intent, backed behind some other abstract motivation as a way to cope with the boredom of \"reality\", a.k.a. we're just a bunch of fucking fancy monkeys on a spec of dust. playing a social mind\/video game we that must of us somehow respect called\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ensayos&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ensayos","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/ensayos\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2281,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/desktop-software-is-far-from-dead-the-browser-cant-be-all-of-what-the-future-holds-for-the-software-industry\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":2},"title":"Desktop software is far from dead, the browser can&#8217;t be all of what the future holds for the software industry","author":"gubatron","date":"September 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, a lot of people are all about the cloud and everything should be in the browser, but the reality is that there's a very healthy (and still growing) ecosystem of desktop software being created, and updated everyday. 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