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Comment author: AshwinV 07 October 2014 05:31:28AM *  4 points [-]

But philosophers share the general human weakness for explanations of what is incomprehensible in terms suited for what is familiar and well understood, though entirely different.

Originally said by Thomas Nagel (I got it from Hofstadter and Dennett here )

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