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Harris is notorious for only engaging in debates he's going to win on his terms and cancelling publication if he's not satisfied with the outcome and, if all else fails, acting all hurt and mistreated.

I'm with Dennett on both free will and consciousness. I also liked these two articles in Aeon I read recently. https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one https://aeon.co/essays/consciousness-is-not-a-thing-but-a-process-of-inference Nothing much to disagree with there.

But really, philosophy can be a bummer and repulsive to the extent that it's intellectual oneupmanship.

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thanks again for the summary and saving me the trouble.

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