Dennett throws down the gloves and pummels Sam Harris right in the gut

[Chas]

I'm with Min on this, not dissing philosophy, but I prefer to waste my time on concrete shit. Masturbation is more than rubbing a penis or a clitoris.

I think it's important to have a well-articulated philosophical framework by which to interpret the observations I make, or rather, when I "waste my time on concrete shit." Without philosophy, there is no science.

Without science, philosophy is simply rhetoric.

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From Dennett's response it is pretty clear to me that the cosmological brat is an intellectual lightweight outside his own specialty. That he could go off so half cocked on a topic he has given only superficial reflection is a tribute to his narcissism which obviously is second to none. Harris annoys me.

I thought the "cosmological brat" was Krause.

Nah, it's Krauss.