Philosophers are too involved with notions like “ontological status” to take such developments lightly, but no other part of culture is. (Consider the fact that only philosophers remain perplexed about how one can have unconscious motives and desires.) Only the notion that philosophy should provide a permanent matrix of categories into which every possible empirical discovery and cultural development can be fitted without strain impels us to ask unanswerable questions like “Would this mean that there were no minds?”
September 19, 2020. Page 123. Philosopher's often take things too seriously and do not seek to understand Actual human motivation which is often not about rationality.
