Our intermittent emails about it have been very helpful or very unhelpful depending partly on whether I ever finish it
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There are lots of senior people who can explain to students that cognitive science isn’t a thing. However, Yudkosky was self-taught, so he didn’t get the benefit of that, and just read a lot of papers, and assumed without thinking about it that there was some there there.
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So his understanding of representation was no more incoherent than most; it just reflects the state of the field circa 1990, when the smart people said “oh @#$%, we suddenly realize none of this makes any sense, we’d better find something else to do instead.”
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I figured out that at least my university’s political science department’s epistemology was bogus/incoherent at around age 21, but that didn’t mean I could really understand why; it just gave me the creeps.
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You are exceptionally perceptive :)
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