/sci/ - Science & Math

>Optical illusions exist
>Therefore, consciousness doesn't
>mfw

>"I will now explain consciousness"
>gives a hand wavey explanation of how neurons work
>"See? Consciousness was just an illusion after all. If you disagree with me you believe in mysticism"

Do people actually take this guy seriously?

Hard problem deniers are dualists without realizing it

>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.

I don't know how the brain works, but I think I might have an idea of how the brain works if we did know how the brain works, therefore, consciousness is an illusion.

t. Dennett

>>8826702
Why are you so mean to Dennett-san?

>When I show you a picture of a cat, this certain area of your brain lights up
>Therefore, I have explained consciousness

ITT: We post attention whoring brainlets