>tfw too smart to care about philosophers and their musings

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>tfw too smart to care about philosophers and their musings about consciousness
>tfw can easily realise that they merely make unfalsifiable conjectures (currently unfalsifiable by science) and the worth of these ideas is based on marketing
>tfw pity the fools on lit who read ten thousand page treatises that merely market unfalsifiable ideas

Why are ANY of these people taken seriously? It doesn't matter if, right this second, I isolated the "neural algorithms" and parts of the brain that produced consciousness and created a robot that instantly acted like a conscious person. All the famous philosophers would merely stand on top of the new scientific findings and make different unfalsifiable conjectures.

Why are people too stupid to see this? The same things have happened ALL the time. Whether it was Aristotle saying men had more teeth than women or any old dumb shit. Pseudointellectuals stand on top of currently accepted scientific findings and make unfalsifiable conjectures that are judged solely on marketing.

>inb4 science isn't ultimate truth

I agree. I only mention science because it is a subset of philosophy that overlaps well with another Philosophy: what we perceive.

But the difference is that you guys take Daniel Dennet's speculations as Serious Business SOLELY due to marketing.