RivieraKid2

Possibly. But when defending my philosophical positions, I never had issues or felt that I'm missing out. Same with the philosophy course I took. Bad signal-to-noise ratio, too much nonsense.

Honestly, I doubt that, the philosophy course I took convinced me that the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad. I've developed my philosophical view mostly independently and have always been able to defend it. I hoped I would get some hard philosophy questions here but nevermind :)

> or why we seem to all broadly agree on quality of artwork

That's really just a biology / neuroscience / psychology question.

I think that in philosophy, unlike other fields, one can get very far with little studying, possibly closer to truth than someone who did a lot of it.

(Posting under a different username because I got "you're posting too fast" error.)