It is unfortunate that HN is not very well suited for long-running discussions. A topic mostly dies out after about a day or less. Early reactions seem to sco

It is unfortunate that HN is not very well suited for long-running discussions. A topic mostly dies out after about a day or less. Early reactions seem to score more karma, and that probably spurs people into writing hasty replies. To most, it is not worth it to perform a couple of hours of research before writing up a good reply. This means we have to be lucky to have some expert with current knowledge join in. Given that most people here are billionaires with a passion for dynamic typing, and not philosophers of mind, I am actually fairly surprised at the reasonable level of discussion. Also, I doubt that referencing prior literature in the context of cognition and consciousness would be of much help. HN writes a lot of nonsense about it, but so have many professional philosophers. After sifting through all of that, one still has to add a lot of convincing arguments to advance an unpopular opinion. A friend once suggested to build forum software that would allow discussions to reach a certain level of trustworthiness or truth. After several lengthy discussions I still doubt that such a thing is feasible. But it might spark your interest? :)