I don’t understand most of this, but I 100% trust you.
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Replying to @CateTiernan @S33light
I think his intentions are pure but his thinking is slightly too inclusive
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Replying to @Plinz @CateTiernan
I think it is necessary/desirable to take a super-inclusive approach because I'm trying to introduce a conceptual shift that is metaphysically fundamental. What a 'self' or a 'mind' is seems debatable. I can reduce them to nested histories of sensation.
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Replying to @S33light @CateTiernan
You cannot build a sculpture by sweeping and piling up the detritus in your workshop, you’ll always end up with a heap
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Replying to @Plinz @CateTiernan
I think that I'm sweeping out the detritus in the collective workshop to reveal the mosaic on the floor.
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Replying to @S33light @CateTiernan
Collecting everything that could be true is only one half of the thought process. The other half is about throwing everything away that is not.
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Replying to @Plinz @CateTiernan
I think that is what I am doing - throwing away untrue assumptions linking sensation to 'minds' and 'self' because they don't survive Occam's Razor. I think Descartes didn't go far enough. Thinking does not prove "I am", but it does prove 'thought (sense-making sensation) "is"'.
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Replying to @S33light @CateTiernan
Descartes makes incredible sense if his ideas are not read as ontological but phenomenological descriptions. Our mind does indeed represent res extensa (a physics engine full of moving stuff in an all-encompassing 3space) and res cogitans (other mental content) in different ways.
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I think, therefore I am seems to be either trivially circular or a trivial category error, depending on whether I is a constant or a variable. But as a an experiential description, cogito ergo sum works well.
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Replying to @Plinz @CateTiernan
I agree as a typical human experience the cogito works well, but non-ordinary states of consciousness make me hesitate to generalize it.
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Yes, it describes a particular configuration of the mind, one that is probably quite conducive to interpreting sensory data with analytical models.
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