It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.