Morendil comments on Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 10 January 2010 10:39:48AM 6 points [-]

Noticing a problem seems an important contribution to solving it.

Comment author: Technologos 10 January 2010 11:08:08PM 2 points [-]

Agreed, and a lot of modern fields, including many of the natural sciences and social sciences, derive from philosophers' framework-establishing questions. The trick is that we then consider the fields therein derived as solving the original questions, rather than philosophy.

Philosophy doesn't really solve questions in itself; instead, it allows others to solve them.

Comment author: gwern 10 January 2010 09:58:38PM 1 point [-]

"The difficult thing here is not, to dig down to the ground; no, it is to recognize the ground that lies before us as the ground."

--Wittgenstein