ida sanka 2 September 2021

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Elizabeth Ann Curran 6 February 2021

Thank you, Ian Wardell.

The demystification section of this article amounts to, “it is this way because I say it is.”

Such hubris.

By the way, Peter Hacker, was “trapped in a vice” a typo, a pun, or did you mean “an immoral or evil habit or practice?” The device with jaws is a vise. Actually, it’s quite funny the way it is. ????

Ian Wardell 26 March 2020

Well, this article was great until about 60% of the way through until the heading "Demystification". But this first 60% was essentially an outline of the history of the mind body problem and why it's considered a problem. After that point, when it was his turn to provide his solution, he never said anything of any substantive nature at all. It was all just words without much, if indeed any, meaning. Philosophers and scientists always seem to do this when discussing the mind-body problem i.e a good description of the origins of the problem followed by meaningless twaddle when they propose their own "solution".

Consciousness is only a intractable mystery if we assume the brain (or the whole body) somehow produces it. Why do professional scientists and philosophers assume this? No-one has ever provided a satisfactory answer to this question.