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In academic circles most of it comes from philosophers of mind, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
by return0 11y ago
In academic circles most of it comes from philosophers of mind, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
- johansch 11y agoWho in their right mind would go to philosophers to get an understanding on how the human brain works at a physical level? Why not go to your priest instead? Same level of understanding.
- Terr_ 11y agoPerhaps less: Priests may have more direct experience with a variety of minds :p
- Osmium 11y agoI think that's somewhat unfair to philosophers. Besides the fact that science grew out of philosophy, even today philosophers are very good at defining problems and finding logical inconsistencies. As a scientist, that seems very useful indeed. To understand the brain on a "physical level", we have to know what questions we're asking first.
- return0 11y agoMy experience is that philosophy of mind has almost nothing to offer to modern neuroscience. The questions being asked are the unhelpful ones and signify a general obsession with semantics, subjectivity and language tricks.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoDo you know what philosophy is? Do you know what science is?
- dang 11y agoThe GP was not a high-quality comment, but please don't make things personal.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoYou only think that I'm making things personal because you think those questions, "what is philosophy?", "what is science?" are basic questions that it would be an embarrassment not to know the answers to.
- dang 11y agoThat's sort of true, but misses my point. I'll try to be clearer. Such questions are commonly used as rhetorical weapons, so if you don't mean them that way, it's incumbent on you to make the distinction. In this case that might mean (a) providing enough information to explain why escalating the question is necessary to the discussion, as opposed to a closet insult, and (b) using impersonal language. For example, you already changed your wording from "do you know what science is" to "what is science". That's a big difference.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoOK, I appreciate your feedback.