The Death of Modern Philosophy

Philosophy is the discipline concerned with the questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy)

Under this definition above, understanding knowledge and how it differs from experience ‘solves’ a great many of the philosophical issues that have been debated since Plato. Solving this is, in a way, the death of Philosophy as we know it.

The ‘missing link’ to this solution is simply an understanding of where knowledge comes from and how it is formed, which is the recognition and structuring of questions into logic. This single process is the same for scientific knowledge or rational knowledge, but as a global society, we’ve simply mixed these two up.
We have some surety in scientific method, which is a rigorous way of structuring questions about our physical reality into converging logic, but we do not have a corresponding ‘rational logic method,’ which would be a rigorous way of structuring rational questions into expanding rational logic.

Because we don’t have this test, we are basically trashing our global rational knowledge base with duplication, overlap, error, information overload, undo complexity, etc.

What is coming soon is a mechanized way to structure rational knowledge. Cirilab Speed Read (http://www.cirilab.com/) is a good example of what this is going to look like (just imagine this capability multiplied by 1 million+).

Once we have a mechanized equivalent to scientific method, knowledge will become much, much ‘smaller’ because the duplication, overlap, error, etc. will be quickly eliminated. At this point we will realize how little we ‘really’ know because we’ve basically been running in semantic circles creating circular and erroneous logic.

This automated logic will also enable the convergence of nano/bio/info/cognitive knowledge (the NBIC Convergence). Rational knowledge will quickly come into one, which is the natural state of knowledge.
The current model of knowledge is built on the concept of ‘expertise’ which is unruly and erroneous. It is a political basis for knoweldge instead of a logical basis. Mechanized rational logic combined with 1 million+ more computing power, would enable an individual to taxonomize the entire Internet as we know it today and would take the politics as we know it today out of this process.

Again, this entire transformation is based a simple understanding of how knowledge is formed.   This understanding will lead to automatic taxonomy of rational knowledge and will bring about the simultaneous death of modern philosophy and rise of singularity, which is essentially a new level of philosophy.