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It is all a matter of where we stop asking questions. Mostly, good philosophers keep on pushing and end up with something ridiculously hard like Chalmer's hard problem of consciousness. But most of us refuse to recognize that this is even a problem: the brain produces it.

Just because we answer one of (what,when,why,how,where) does not mean the whole problem is solved.

Feynman on a related problem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

Unfortunately, this tradition of honest and deep questions and answers has mostly sort of tapered off...



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