Posted: Apr 06, 2012 11:33 am
by campermon
UndercoverElephant wrote:
The explanatory gap is the "hard problem" and if you don't understand that by now then you ought to be ashamed of yourself, given the length of time you've been posting on this board.


Yes, there is always the 'hard problem'.

Science can explain the 'how' bit, but 'why' will be still there for the philosophers to muck about with.

Much in the same way we are getting pretty near to answering 'how' the universe started but have no idea 'why'.