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Charlatan's avatar

I wonder if this can be regarded as another scientific problem haunted by the spectre of the "gloomy prospect", used in reference to another seemingly insoluble problem in behavior genetics?

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David P.'s avatar

Fascinating article, and du Bois-Reymond's thesis has obvious parallels to Colin McGinn's position that the 'hard problem' of consciousness remains, in principle, insoluble to the limited ken of our human brains. This is an echo of the traditions of negative theology, suggesting that God (and by extension Reality) remains forever closed off to us - for example the Cloud of Unknowing of mediaeval Christian mysticism or the Ein Sof of Kabbalah.

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