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.

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.

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

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

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.