Hi Jeff

Re: "Brain info does not come from philosophy, so far as I can tell." Yes I agree. When I said the "scientific approach" has useful things to say about the brain I meant science as in medicine etc.

And now for your list of claims which I can't resist responding to:

1) Anal philosophy does not tell us anything about consciousness, unless we are content with being wrong.
Enjoyed the humour. In my typical agnostic style I will say that I think it unlikely that it will tell us anything
 
2) "Self" is different from "self."
Well, I get edgy around the word "self" with or without capitals so I will pass on that. (I once attended an analytic seminar about "self-consciousness" where no one seemed to think it necessary to define what was meant by self. At last I raised the point and received blank looks as if the question was irrelevant. I heard a rumbling noise which I think was Hume turning over in his grave.)

3) The study of consciousness is essentially an ethical inquiry.
Not sure. Could be.

4) There is and will never be a philosopher of lasting note to arise within the Analytic "tradition."
Ha!  Well, you could be right...

5) Analytic philosophy is sophistry.
I think a lot is, yes.

6) Reductionism inspires small-minded persons with limited experience.
Well, yes, maybe...

7) Continental philosophy requires 3 things that most Anglo-philosophiles lack: literacy, a sense of history, a capacity for synthesis.
I think it does require a sense of history. In general I think analytic philosophy is quite hostile or at least indifferent to history (analytic aesthetics certainly is). That results, in my view, from analytic philosophy's basic view of what reality is: it is taken to be like the reality of science - that is ahistorical.

8) The current state of political affairs in the Anglo-West (budding totalitarianism in the guise of theo-fascism) is due to the fact that Anglo-philosophiles have dropped the ethical ball, that is they have not and are not doing their jobs as Philosophers.
Possible. I'm not sure I think philosophers can save us anyway.

9) Furthermore, this totalitarianism will continue, and result in civil/world war (by design) until and unless Philosophers arise from the ranks of Western-philosophiles and retake the helm of social transformation.
Ah, well, here we are in the realm of prophecy. I will abstain.

10) In the end, the Anal tradition shirks this responsibility, while the Cont tradition still allows for it.
Well I think continental tries to respond. Whether it does successfully or not is another question.

Sorry to be so non-committal at points.

DA