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Thomas Nagel [1937-0]
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Philosopher


Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy, where he has taught since 1980.

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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. Computers
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
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