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Oh, I've tried very hard to understand the views of people like Chalmers, Nagel and Goff. My only take-away is that it's just gatekeeping because science has ma
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
Oh, I've tried very hard to understand the views of people like Chalmers, Nagel and Goff. My only take-away is that it's just gatekeeping because science has made more advances on these questions in a few centuries than philosophy has in milennia. They want there to be a hard problem, because then they can keep talking about ill-defined problems all day with no progress in sight, publishing papers. Just happy to be workin'
- whittingtonaaon 4y agoBut science has never said anything about it at all. The subject matter of science is the externally observable and consciousness is an internal category.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoAre you just gonna keep repeating that or do you have an actual argument to support this claim?
- whittingtonaaon 4y agoYou’re right. I’m being repetitive. But it’s not really an argument. All I’m doing is saying the definition of science, at least as it’s historically been defined. The only bit of argument I have there is that I think by forgetting this definition we’ve wandered astray.