@sarahdoingthing "your current self dies every time a new neuron fires!!!!" was a little morbid
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Replying to @cwage
@cwage@sarahdoingthing And incoherent. Whole lot of straw men and non-sequiturs in that essay.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@cwage Sure. Guy lost me when he argued 'the self doesn't exist 2/3rds of the time, therefore it doesn't exist at all'.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@cwage He’s got a deeply confused theory of self. Appeals to Buddhists who don’t understand it.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness Can you give a twitter version summary of what's wrong with it? Pretty please! :)5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AtaraxJim
@AtaraxJim It’s too stupid to take seriously. His reputation among philosophers is based on talking neuroscience, and vice versa.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness That does sound bad - I guess the meat of it is in his "being no one"?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AtaraxJim
@AtaraxJim I read the first few chapters of Being No One as well, just in case it was less stupid, but it isn’t.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness He wouldn't be the first functionalist to run into problems, mind you. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@AtaraxJim Yes, the whole representational theory of mind is unworkable. He’s just a pop version of that, and an illustrative symptom.
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