#philosophy # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Plato's allegory]] - [[We are optimized for survival not for understanding physics]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Idealism According to [[Berkeley]], matter does not exist, this denial, he supported by a number of ingenious arguments. He maintained that material objects only exist through being perceived. To the objection that, in that case, a tree, for instance, would cease to exist if no one was looking at it, he replied that God always perceives everything; if there were no God, what we take to be material objects would have a jerky life, suddenly leaping into being when we look at them; but as it is, owing to God's perceptions, trees and rocks and stones have an existence as continuous as common sense supposes. This is, in his opinion, a weighty argument for the existence of God. Actually, this way of thinking is used in computer graphics as an optimization technique called "frustum culling", objects, for an agent, only exists when perceived ![[Pasted image 20210628084400.png]] Can we really deny the existence of what we don't perceive? I don't see infrared color but it exists? **Idealism** tend to derive into [[Nihilism]], [[Nietzsche]] said: >All the idealism of mankind, hitherto, is on the point of turning into Nihilism—may be shown to be a belief in absolute worthlessness, i.e. purposelessness [[Space]] and [[Physic/Time|time]] are an illusion? >I come now to a singular feature of Hegel's philosophy, which distinguishes it from the philosophy of Plato or Plotinus or Spinoza. Although ultimate reality is timeless, and time is merely an illusion generated by our inability to see the whole, yet the time-process has an intimate relation to the purely logical process of the dialectic. World history, in fact, has advanced through the categories, from Pure Being in China (of which Hegel knew nothing except that it was) to the Absolute Idea, which seems to have been nearly, if not quite, realized in the Prussian State. I cannot see any justification, on the basis of his own metaphysic, for the view that world history repeats the transitions of the dialectic, yet that is the thesis which he developed in his Philosophy of History. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] > La pathologie de l'idée est dans l'**idéalisme**, où l'idée occulte la réalité qu'elle a mission de traduire et se prend pour seule ~ [[Edgar Morin]] # Idealism is required to achieve [[Artificial general intelligence|AGI]]? **Idealism** helps us realize the limits of our [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|intelligence]]? That we have a very narrow intelligence and we need to allow AI to break free from it, [[Do not rely on authority|think independently]]?