4 ms·
Oh, come on. Even the serious philosophers of mind who have (presumably) thoroughly studied all the relevant classic and modern works are wasting their time wit
by bondarchuk 5y ago
Oh, come on. Even the serious philosophers of mind who have (presumably) thoroughly studied all the relevant classic and modern works are wasting their time with obvious nonsense like philosophical zombies, Chinese rooms, brains in a vat, teletransportation, Mary the colour scientist, inverted qualia... You can spend years on this stuff not getting anything out of it other than a byzantine taxonomy of "stances" on consciousness, their interrelations, and the myriad ways everyone misinterprets each other.
But maybe the problem is that after you cut the crap there's not that much philosophy of mind left to be done. Who would want to read a book that just says "well, guess we'll have to wait for neuroscience to figure out the details"?
- nathias 5y agoThe problem is you are expectng philosophy to do the work of neuroscience, but that isn't what it is for. Philosophy will help you understand the problem fields of concepts which in case of the mind are interconnected with epistemology and general metaphysics. Why is that important? Because otherwise we get guys that reinvent the same crap over and over and over and over again call it something new.