Not sure what you mean by “projection”. They are objectively observable: people stop when the light turns red.
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Replying to @Meaningness
they stop when their neocortices create a dream of red lights infused by relevance generated by their motivational systems
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Replying to @Plinz
why a “dream” rather than an accurate sensory perception?
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Replying to @Meaningness
it strikes me as unusual if Buddhists are direct realists :)
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Replying to @Plinz
The Buddhist philosophical tradition, interestingly, has produced essentially all the same metaphysical positions as the Western one
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I myself have no particular position; but direct realism seems more-or-less right. My thesis work was heavily influenced by Gibson,
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Replying to @Meaningness @Plinz
as well as visual psychophysics, which has pretty much a direct-realist implicit assumption
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is this why you left the field? i don't think that direct realism can work
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Replying to @Plinz
I left because I found compelling reasons to think none of the extsnt approaches could work, and couldn’t think of any others
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Replying to @Meaningness
the inferential distance between the "serious AI crazies" has closed in recent years, but it may be too large to bridge you in?
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not sure I understand that tweet!
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Replying to @Meaningness
did you follow the reception of Solomonoff induction and its relationship to Deep Learning, Schmidhuberism etc.?
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