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Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by tablespoon on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:36PM (#26345351)
> It doesn't take that much charity to interpret that what the original poster was saying as, "I reject the subset of philosophy that is not science, on the grounds that the subset which is science has all of the value,"

I think the original post has shown your reinterpretation is probably too charitable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345215

It's a pretty classic case of celebrating science without really acknowledging or understanding its foundations and dependencies.

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Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by titzer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:53PM (#26345593)
> It's a pretty classic case of celebrating science without really understanding its foundations and dependencies.

Why is it that we need to constantly go here with accusations of ignorance? Do we really need to do that all the time? Somehow philosophy contains everything, all the time. You're ignorant! No you're ignorant! My thing contains your thing! No, my thing contains your thing!

Read my comment again. Why do some philosophical problems get turned over and over for centuries with no progress and yet the empiricism of Science has absolutely revolutionized human life? Why should we be so afraid of some neuroscientist who hasn't read Searle? I mean, isn't he going to just stumble on it again? If it's true, then they would, right?

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