200 BC

>200 BC
>the sky, moon, and stars interest people
>people make all sorts of unfalsifiable conjectures that are consistent with currently accepted facts
>these conjectures are completely ignored once new scientific evidence is found and accepted

>2017 AD
>the brain and consciousness interest people
>philosophers make all sorts of unfalsifiable conjectures that are consistent with currently accepted facts

Why are their opinions taken seriously? All they do is stand on top of currently accepted scientific facts* and try to monopolise the ability to make unfalsifiable conjectures.

And why do Philosophers completely evacuate any question that has been settled through scientific or engineering methods? Why aren't they trying to figure out how cars move or how planes can fly? Planes and cars are important to society. Hmm... It couldn't be due to the fact that they wallow in unfalsifiable areas and obscurantism and fashionable areas, could it...

*no, I'm not saying that science isn't a subset of philosophy or that logical positivism is true.

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Dennett-san is a bit of an attention whore. Go easy on him, he just likes to be noticed.

ugh

Why oh why

Do the blue birds fly?

Fucking kill yourself.

I agree with you, OP. It’s frustrating to see otherwise intelligent people waste their time taking ideas like consciousness seriously. It’s basically the atheist version of a soul.

>tfw materialism has made all people acosmic by reducing what was once rococo phantasmagoria to meaningless numbers no one cares about
>tfw materialism is covert apocalyptarian gnosticism

there was no light pollution in 200bc. when people watched the sky they saw all stars and the milky way. try to do that in a modern big city. their minds were unclouded. nowadays the common man lost this kind of mind-sharpening way of observing things.

who the fuck is this santa claus-looking motherfucker and why is am i seeing him everywhere all of a sudden