Z._M._Davis comments on Righting a Wrong Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Z._M._Davis 10 March 2008 07:49:49AM 0 points [-]

Mitchell, I think it's far too early to give up on the materialist program, which has so far been a smashing success. Consciousness is (as it is said) a hard problem, but even if no one ever finds a solution, one might at least first give solemn consideration to the possibility (I forget exactly where I read it proposed--Hofstadter?) that humans are just too stupid figure out the answer, before vindicating Leibniz.