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Science still has not touched on any adequate way whatsoever the hard question of consciousness.
Neither have a lot of religions. The eastern, "secular" religions are the major that have at least made an attempt to tackle the problem.
Science still fundamentally has a better approach then religion. Even if the true cause of religion is a god science will find it. But it's honestly probably not sadly.
Yeah, I think you're generally right. Perhaps "the scientific method" is a but more accurate than just "science". But I agree.
I just like to remind some of these people that this is a real problem and not something people can just run roughshod over or brute force like some people like Daniel Dennett try to do.
Define "not touched".
Consciousness is something you have to understand. We are still in the process of getting the pieces together.
Eh... sort of, maybe. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "understand."
Putting the pieces together.
I feel like this is largely incorrect. You may not understand consciousness, but to calm that science hasn't touched it whereas eastern religions have is wildly inaccurate. Both Western and Eastern philosophers have considered consciousness at great length. Science has excellent maps and models of the human brain and we have had passable functional theories of mind for several decades. Is it complete? No, but science is rarely complete. Is it the forefront of a lot of research? Absolutely.