Downvoting a post on consciousness doesn’t mean you think consciousness has been successfully explained. It means that you’re not interested in seeing more posts about consciousness.
Or simply, that you don’t like the post for some reason.
I’d love to see some refreshingly new viewpoints or insights on consciousness, but I guess it will have to wait.
My personal opinion is that Dennett’s explanation is incomplete at best, but that pseudoscientific numerology is really inappropriate (and frustrating) on a rationalist forum.
IMO, the thread-opener is an overly lengthy, but valid criticism on Dennett’s book, while avoiding most useless speculation, which is so prevalent here and elsewhere. The biggest problem with it is that it’s about 5 times longer than it should be, so it fails to make a focused impact.
Downvoting a post on consciousness doesn’t mean you think consciousness has been successfully explained. It means that you’re not interested in seeing more posts about consciousness.
Or perhaps that you’re not interested in seeing more posts about consciousness with the same kind of confusion.
Or simply, that you don’t like the post for some reason.
I’d love to see some refreshingly new viewpoints or insights on consciousness, but I guess it will have to wait.
My personal opinion is that Dennett’s explanation is incomplete at best, but that pseudoscientific numerology is really inappropriate (and frustrating) on a rationalist forum.
IMO, the thread-opener is an overly lengthy, but valid criticism on Dennett’s book, while avoiding most useless speculation, which is so prevalent here and elsewhere. The biggest problem with it is that it’s about 5 times longer than it should be, so it fails to make a focused impact.