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by AndrewKemendo 43 days ago
Nobody will ever define consciousness to a level that everyone agrees so the whole debate is silly

There’s no winners in a debate about a concept nobody agrees on the definition of

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This is essentially every philosophical argument. Personally, I find them valuable even if they can never get us to consensus.
Sure but thats a different context than pop-articles.

The whole tradition around studying and debating this is lost when it becomes a public debate

I'm not following. Should the public be kept away from philosophy?
Would that even be feasible? Information wants to be free and entropy is a bitch.