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It's weird when you read about tech advances that are so profound, you have to stop and consider the philosophical implications. I have a dime on my desk that probably weighs 2 grams... something that small could contain more raw data than a person could possibly read in their entire life... that could contain 1.4 million hours of cd quality audio. Insane!

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What does that have to do with philosophy?

Considering and quantifying the some total of your actions in life is largely philosophical in nature. Yes its not writing a paper on the applications of Friedrich Nietzsche in 2015, but everyone also isn't an academic.

Much like figuring out how much to tip your waiter is a mathematical exercise. Just one that might not shake the foundations of academic mathematics.

Just because territory is well travel, doesn't mean everyone has walked there.

By that definition, everything is philosophy.

>everything is philosophy.

I know a more then one prof who'd agree with that statement.

http://xkcd.com/903/

"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at 'Philosophy'."

I think when we were doing the work it was largely philosophical for us to. The project was pretty simple practically.

That is a great philosophical question! To answer it you might have to consider, What is philosophy? and, What is data?, and What is information?

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