Why don't you try educating rather than berating? What models do you think are actually worth studying? Give concrete examples. You can't just wave vaguely at a

Why don't you try educating rather than berating? What models do you think are actually worth studying? Give concrete examples. You can't just wave vaguely at a concept and say people are ignoring everything that has come before them. It's not obvious to me that existing lines of inquiry are going to lead to a successful model of consciousness. In particular, my sense is that the AI revolution has provided us with more key insights than thousands of years of philosophical inquiry. But like you said, maybe I'm just ignorant of existing work. I'm happy to be proven wrong. Have you considered that not all readers might've been afforded the same educational opportunities as yourself? People are engaging with openness and curiosity, exploring ideas. You're just telling them to shut up until they've read a bunch of existing work which might not even provide them a meaningful answer. I think trying to shut down any kind of conversation because someone hasn't spent hundreds or thousands of hours studying a field goes against the spirit of Hacker News.