Reality

Question 1

Metaphysics

Answer 1

It deals with the questions concerning reality.

Question 2

What does The Tao means

Answer 2

«The way» or «The guide»

It is the foundation of reality which is a process.

Question 3

First philosophy

Answer 3

It refers to the set of philosophical questions which must be settled before any other philosophical questions can be addressed.

Question 4

Hyper-reality

Answer 4

An image or simulation that either distorts the reality or does not depict anything with a real existence, but which nonetheless comes to constitute reality.

Question 5

Modernity

Answer 5

It denotes the kind of society and civilization in history in which we live in.

It is characterized by democracy, capitalism, universal human rights, science, etc.

Question 6

The Turing Test

Answer 6

It is a thought experiment. He supposed that a computer can be said to be conscious if someone were to have a conversation with it, and be unable to tell the difference between the computer and a biological human.

Question 7

Transhumanism

Answer 7

It is the belief that current humanity need not to be the endpoint of evolution and that we need to enhance the human condition and the human organism, by the advancement of technology. This include the possibility of genetically modifying ourselves, colonizing other planets, implanting tech in our bodies, etc.

Question 8

The Carter-Leslie Doomsday Argument

Answer 8

It is the belief of a major collapse of human civilization may be much closer to our present time than is normally estimated.

Question 9

The Pluto’s Cave

Answer 9

The theory argues that our knowledge of reality/forms is not real knowledge; only our knowledge of these forms can be considered as real knowledge.

Question 10

Bostrom’s Simulation argument

Answer 10

It has the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.

It argues that one of these proposition are true:

(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history ; (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.