Much of last century's progress in the hard sciences depended on technology and the creation of research communities with critical mass. But for psychology and philosophy of mind, all crucial ideas have probably been discovered (and often lost again) thousands of years ago.
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The “knowing of” and “knowing why” distinction
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There seems to be one more: understanding how a mind gets to have a certain thought in the first place. How did it occur to Marconi to plug certain things together to achieve wireless communication? How did he see the universe? How did he get to this understanding?
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after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education;
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and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves." - Solon in Plato's Timeus
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