Thoughts on things...

Philosophical questions: I was thinking not so much about philosophy today as the questions that philosophy attempts to tackle. I was reading some Searle today and he was attempting to address the question, "Do computers think?" This is of course a silly question. Totally silly. Not so much as to whether one could or would answer a question about machines but because of what the implications would be for thinkers. Of course machines do not think in the way that we do! To imply as much is total nonsense. But the problem is what if we think like machines? What if our mental events are equivalent to the sparks of electrons along silicon pathways? That would be depressing right? I say bollocks. I say bollocks to all that. Why is this problem? What does this steal from us? What light of mysterty goes out of this peculiar experience we call be human? Unless you have nothing it should not. But I am rambling. My point being this: a great many questions that philosophers ask are actually nothing but the echo of self-doubt. And this moot points, wastes of time, obuscations of the issue, and at the lowest level screams in to the darkness that is not actually the unkown but hubris...