> Still it's a pity, one of the greatest strengths of SF over contemporary
lit is
> its ability to create a hothouse of ideas. You just can't get this kind
of
> extended meditation on existential questions anywhere else. Sure you
could
> read actual philosophers but they bad habit of maiming any sense of wonder
> just by their style.
Well, granted, but there are a good many sf writers of whom one could the
same, largely owing to a penchant for facile effects and mass market simple
mindedness.
Unfair? Yes, it is, and that largely because it ignores the worthy
exceptions. As one
whose interests extend to both sf and phil, Rob, I would urge a more
even-handed
approach.
And did not Aristotle say that philosophy begins in a sense of wonder?
Cheers,
Wayne Daniels
"Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious.
Nobody
even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how
anything
material could be conscious. So much for the philosophy of consciousness."
Jerry Fodor (1992).
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