What seems needed is a groups of creative 150IQ people willing to take the MegaCourse and create good philosophy as fast as possible, so we can use it for whatever purposes. Probably that group should, like the best intellectual groups examineds by Domenico de Masi in his “Creativity and Creative Groups”, get a place to be togheter, and work earnestly and honestly.
Finally, they must be sharp in avoiding biases, useless discussions, and counterfactual intuitions.
Besides the sciences that Luke Mentioned, don’t forget people also need to learn the subsets of philosophy which actually are consistent and compatible with science. In the case of philosophy of mind, I began a list here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/58d/how_not_to_be_a_na%C3%AFve_computationalist/
What seems needed is a groups of creative 150IQ people willing to take the MegaCourse and create good philosophy as fast as possible, so we can use it for whatever purposes. Probably that group should, like the best intellectual groups examineds by Domenico de Masi in his “Creativity and Creative Groups”, get a place to be togheter, and work earnestly and honestly.
Finally, they must be sharp in avoiding biases, useless discussions, and counterfactual intuitions.
This gets more likely every minute.…