[dmreedy]

You're right, of course, but that also makes your out-of-hand dismissals based on your own philosophical premises equally invalid.

Until a model of human sentience and awareness is established (note: one of the oldest problems out there alongside the movements of the stars. This is an ancient debate, still open-ended, and nothing anyone is saying in these threads is new), philosophy is all we have and ideas are debated on their merits within that space.