has anyone written anything worth reading about the epistemology of circling?
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Replying to @tasshinfogleman
I would love to bloviate on this topic! Got a specific question? You mentioned something at MAPLE about "I have a sense that you're feeling X, how do I know that," is that the kind of thing you mean?
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Replying to @tasshinfogleman
Hm, so several possible levels of explanation here. There's like "we evolved to detect each other's feelings," there's like "detecting feelings is key to relating to others so we (mostly) learn to do it growing up," there's like the phenomenology of reading facial tension...
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @tasshinfogleman
Gonna go ahead and assume the phenomenology is the most interesting direction. My experience of it is that when I'm really paying attention to a face (or a body) my read on it sort of just arises out of emptiness, the way poetry sometimes does, or a felt sense label.
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
another way to put it: a) phenomenologically it seems like I can feel/understand others’ experience b) my intuition is to trust that, c) rationally I am uncertain how much to trust it, and what good epistemology (if there is such a thing) would say about this uncharted territory
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Replying to @tasshinfogleman
I personally find the "sense" orientation / frame compelling. You have some sense that you trust your eyesight generally, maybe, to tell you something about the world, whatever that is. What's the epistemic status of that? In what sense do you trust your eyesight?
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Once you internalize stuff about e.g. optical illusions, the role of perceptual priors in perception, etc. you realize that there's a naive kind of trust in your eyesight that you can't have. But you still rely on your eyesight to be telling you something.
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