I think that you may be a bit too pussyfooted when you make your points. While it is virtuous to avoid overstating one's position, you should also not understate the degree of your certainty. If an argument is more tenable than another, we owe it to present it as strong as it is.
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I can't win, can I? :)
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You cannot win while you are still worried to get rejected by people you know to be caught up in an illusion :)
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I'm not worried about being rejected. I just know that I could be wrong and like to be charitable.
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You mean you know you could potentially discover that you are conscious in actuality, functionalism is an untenable framework, and existence some kind of conspiracy? That’s a pretty heavy claim to make!
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No, I don't think I could discover that. I'm confident in my views, and I'll defend them robustly. (I think I do.) But I also know I'm fallible. And I think it's good to have rival views clearly and robustly stated, so that the community can make an informed decision.
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I sometimes wonder if this community is the olympus or the special olympics of philosophy. None of the alternatives (like consciousness realism and panpsychism) work. If you present illusionism humbly as an “often neglected” family of theories, you may be understating the case.
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I take your point, and I try to make a strong case for the view. But my preference is to do so with politeness, charity, and humility.
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I find that politeness is an important part of integrity. Charity is a requirement for any meaningful discourse. But humility implies that our positions are somehow still related to our self or our worth, which I think they should not be.
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The humility doesn't attach to the position but to my attitude in expressing it. One can humbly advocate an uncompromising position. But anyway I'm advocating extreme humility; more a lack of arrogance
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Yes, I think that I can see that and I have great sympathy for it. I still wish you'd state your position as strongly as you hold it!
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