What if everything philosophers care about -- meaning, civilization, consciousness -- is a spandrel? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_
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No duh about it. I'd bet 51-49 in favor of spandrel hypothesis
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most of them would have to look it up. I just did. what a great new term to learn!
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if they were once, they aren't now. Culture, meaning, "thought about thought" have clearly improved our survivability.
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more likely it is everything that philosophers and only philosophers care about that is a spandrel




