The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169643   Message #4101872
Posted By: Bill D
11-Apr-21 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Civilizations before and beyond
Subject: RE: BS: Civilizations before and beyond
Yep.. that article has issues quite familiar:
"Philosophy addresses questions that probably can’t be solved, now or ever. Examples (and these are of course debatable, some philosophers and scientists insist that science can answer all questions worth asking): Why is there something rather than nothing? Does free will exist? How does matter make a mind?"

I read Heidegger in about 1963 about the primary philosophical question.. and my partially done Master's thesis was on "The only possible way to resolve the Free Will/ Determinism question."

I think science 'can' give some answers on how matter makes a mind.. though it won't satisfy everyone.
Once a mind exists that can ask the question, it can also find more that one way to cope with it.. that's where Phenomenology gets into the game. (google the "Eidetic Reduction" when you have a month free... *grin*)