Number four is overreaching. If we had solved the “what is knowledge” problem, AI would already be a reality. The “answer” you give is at best a clearing away of one source of confusion.
I’d consider “the origin of life” a solved philosophical problem.
I’d consider “the origin of life” a solved philosophical problem.
I think one could say more generally that the first cause problem has been solved or almost solved, in the first sense that Yvain described. I am not a physicist, but from what I can tell, physicists are finding it less and less necessary to worry about the next step in an infinite regress.
Number four is overreaching. If we had solved the “what is knowledge” problem, AI would already be a reality. The “answer” you give is at best a clearing away of one source of confusion.
I’d consider “the origin of life” a solved philosophical problem.
I think one could say more generally that the first cause problem has been solved or almost solved, in the first sense that Yvain described. I am not a physicist, but from what I can tell, physicists are finding it less and less necessary to worry about the next step in an infinite regress.