Your statistics?! Please elaborate! You are exploring possible links between humanities engagement and pathologically convoluted sentence structure, eh? :)
But anyway, my bachelors degree was a "combined major" of comp. sci. / philosophy, several decades ago. I still have a strong interest in philosophy of mind but not in any professional capacity. Hope it helps.
I didn't actually keep track of complexity of sentence structure as a function humanities engagement level yet, but... good idea!
According to my ad-hoc statistics, basically the position on consciousness breaks down as follows:
1. Physics/chemistry: "We don't know what Consciousness is, but let us propose a new particle-of-the-day to explain it"
2. Humanities: "We don't know what Consciousness is, but let us propose a new field of science/state of being to explain it"
3. Life sciences: "We don't know what Consciousness is. The last umpteen-thousand papers explained things in terms of known physics and chemistry, so let's explain Consciousness in terms of known physics and chemistry"
4. IT/AI: "We're all gonna die!" (bonus points for being technically correct at all times)
5. Philosophy of Mathematics <- mathematicians are sort of crazy, philosophers are sort of crazy; crazy^2 might just have some sane(?) words on this. (Alan Turing was one of these, and see what kind of trouble HE kicked up!)
Haha, thanks for the reply, just seen this. Nicely summarized!
I guess I'd come under Humanities as far as my interest in consciousness goes, but I'm more "We don't know what Consciousness is, but let's at least stop trying to pretend it's nothing but X (or Y, or Z)" (Aimed mostly at groups 1 & 3 by your schema, I guess).
I'm technically in group 3, of course, and aware of it.
In defense of "my side" though, I think you're responding to a straw man/stereotype a little bit. (said the person who just listed 5 stereotypes)
For one thing, I tell people to stop saying 'nothing but'. Humans are not 'nothing but' monkeys. Do You Know How Smart Monkeys Are? I say it's an honor to be counted among their kind!
Possibly the other stereotypes have some grain of sanity to them in the same way.
Except Philosophy of Mathematics. Tripping without LSD, that's what they are. And probably wouldn't even deny it when challenged.
But anyway, my bachelors degree was a "combined major" of comp. sci. / philosophy, several decades ago. I still have a strong interest in philosophy of mind but not in any professional capacity. Hope it helps.