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First of all, when I said "science can't answer" I did not mean "science won't answer, ever". However, we might not get anything useful from science regarding t
by p1esk 11y ago
First of all, when I said "science can't answer" I did not mean "science won't answer, ever". However, we might not get anything useful from science regarding those questions during our lifetime.
Second, the questions I referred to as "deep", and your examples of those questions - do you not see any value in asking them? For example, "are we living in a simulation?" is a meaningful question to me. Even if we might never know the answer, I still want to explore the possibility. Note I said "we might never know", not that "we can never know".
Finally, I said "science of mind" is in crisis because the explanation of how mind works proved to be more difficult than most people expected, again and again in the last 100 years. The task is well defined, we have a working example in front of us, we have tools to analyze it, and yet, we still have no general theory.