Reblogging this because we're still trying to understand bits of On the Origin of Objects in the comments... please come and join in if you actually understand this book!https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-middle-distance/ …
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Once you notice the nudity, you can ask “why isn’t he cold, what mechanism keeps him warm, this is mysterious” but you tend to get distracted by “why is everyone pretending???” and get annoyed by it. Part I of Eggplant is “look, no clothes,” and I’ve had to work hard to be polite
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and as much as possible to work out the rest of the book which is “what keeps him warm?” and “let’s use that mechanism to make clothes adequate for winter in the Sierra Nevada mountains”
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I have recently finished "Being there" by Andy Clark. Would you say he and "Embodied cognition" folks not notice what you consider emperor's nudity?
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I haven’t read that, so I can’t be specific. Generally the “embodied” movement has got one important part of the story and not others. BCS’s book points to this specifically. Reference can’t be a matter just of perception or other causal coupling, because we can continue to >
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