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Your comment is sophomoric, I'd pick it apart, but I don't see the point. Your comment really isn't up to HN quality standards.
by omarchowdhury 13y ago
Your comment is sophomoric, I'd pick it apart, but I don't see the point. Your comment really isn't up to HN quality standards.
- gizmo 13y agoA lot of people check the comments before reading an article. My comment is intended as some sort of public service announcement: don't bother reading the article. I think there's value in that. Of course, if I posted a blog post with the same contents and titled it "Consciousness is worth thinking about: a rebuttal" it would certainly deserve to get flagged.
- omarchowdhury 13y agoYour comment doesn't really have any "picking apart". You just pose a few questions and frame the article's author as someone not be taken seriously. You can't argue against someone simply by saying "what you said is crackpottery". I found more value in the article than your comment.
- eksith 13y ago"My comment is intended as some sort of public service announcement: don't bother reading the article." Isn't this by and large antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge? It's not quackery, it's not sophomoric, it's an inquisitive exploration of an idea. Also, please see: http://duncancarroll.tumblr.com/post/57994245946/no-really-consciousness-is-worth-thinking-about http://duncancarroll.tumblr.com/post/57994245946/no-really-c...