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The topic of the end of philosophy dominates European philosophy from Kant onwards: Kant designates his critical approach as a prolegomena to a future philosophy (metaphysics); Fichte talks about “doctrine of science” (Wissenschaftslehre) instead of philosophy; Hegel saw his system as no longer just philo-sophy (love of wisdom) but knowledge itself; Marx opposed philosophy to study of actual life. Today, we not only live in an era of the proclaimed end of philosophy, we live in an era of the double end of philosophy. The prospect of a “wired brain” is a kind of final point of the naturalization of human thought: when our process of thinking can directly interact with a digital machine, it effectively becomes an object in reality; it is no longer “our” inner thought as opposed to external reality.