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

Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

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

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

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