Chalmers: “It is natural to hope that there will be a materialist solution to the hard problem and a reductive explanation of consciousness, just as there have been reductive explanations of many other phenomena in many other domains. But consciousness seems to resist materialist explanation in a way that other phenomena do not.”
"A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications"
I checked the blog, You have a point. Brett Devereux was more cautious.
"If you are trying to follow the War in Ukraine, I strongly suggest watching the War on the Rocks podcasts for the times they bring in Michael Kofman."
I’ve been caught up in “guilt by association” here. Michael Kofman always struck me as a cheap propagandist. (but I should shut up now)
Habermas was a decent guy. He stood for a liberal and social democratic Germany.
I respect that he didn’t fully go along with the shift towards crusading liberalism and militarism in Germany.
He was always part of the establishment. His writing was rambling and boring, and I always thought he was naive. RIP
"The study examined different scenarios, from a "best case", in which the war ended in 2023 without significant further escalation, to a "worst case", ending in 2025 after further escalation."
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