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Because, let's be frank, Nagel's work is bad and he should feel bad. There's ongoing work in producing naturalistic explanations for both consciousness and morality, so Nagel doesn't get to use those as, "Therefore we need to throw out all our existing science for a theory of teleology that makes no actual predictions other than that Thomas Nagel's intuitions should come out one way."


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