(August 26, 2013 at 11:58 pm)genkaus Wrote:Sorry genkaus. I didn't have time right now to read all the way through Pinker's article, though I will if you truly think it adds something novel to the mind-brain question.(August 26, 2013 at 8:21 pm)Harris Wrote: ...science has not come to the stage where it can define self-consciousness.You are wrong. It has.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...-1,00.html
Both you and I recognize that science is not practiced in a philosophical vacuum. Are you certain that he has addressed the the issues of intentionality and qualia?