Should ours collapse and should the survivors revert to an economy that can use no more energy than the sun, wind, waves, and hands provide, that does not mean our science, art, philosophy, etc. would disappear.

quite the contrary, i believe. in fact the removal, sudden or slow, of the massive hologram/hallucination we affectionately term 'kool-aide' will lay bare a deeper debate on what philosophy should be, in terms of theory and practice, without creative minds swamped in overwork creating baubles, and let's not forget hunger being better for creative thinking than chloresterolic satiation. i don't mean starvation, obviously, but leaner reasoning, less fatty acids clogging up the psyche!

as for art, as above, but even more so, as the abstractions of philosophy require some intellectual horsepower and classical education, while art is less exigent, requiring only time to concentrate and easily available materials.

and we crave that, otherwise why would aboriginal sand paintings sell for such high prices, they certainly don't need microprocessors for that!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~