![]() “the genes of modern-day Africans are a treasure house for all humanity. It is being worked out and tested, and enriched and strengthened, step by step. There is a real creation story of humanity, and one only, and it is not a myth. ![]() ![]() What science promises, and has already supplied in part, is the following. Philosophers flourish in these various endeavors, but for the time being, at least, and by a process of elimination, the solution of the riddle has been left to science. They emigrated into the more tractable disciplines not yet colonized by science – intellectual history, semantics, logic, foundational mathematics, ethics, theology, and, most lucratively, problems of personal life adjustment. After the decline of logical positivism in the middle of the twentieth century, and the attempt of this movement to blend science and logic into a closed system, professional philosophers dispersed in an intellectual diaspora. The field of discourse is strewn with the wreckage of theories of consciousness. Most of the history of philosophy consists of failed models of the mind. They have good reason for their aversion. It has become a Gorgon for philosophers, upon whose visage even the best thinkers fear to gaze. The question itself is a reputation killer. ![]() Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy long ago abandoned the foundational questions about human existence. ![]() “Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. ![]()
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