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@mwiik

Aug 10, 2019

One can see massive evidence of mental shallowness on this very platform

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Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

Aug 10, 2019

1/ My summary/interpretation of the remarkable book by @NickJChater The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain Affiliate link: amzn.to/2KBEZJd

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It is an interesting argument because is both hilariously and obviously wrong, AND was already defeated once in living memory after decades of hegemony.

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Can you clarify?

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Sure. "The mind," as construed in Western thought is a bit of a magical construct that only maps to two real things: thoughts and imagery. The argument "all these myths about what mind is are false, and therefore those things in those myths don't exist," is banally fallacious.

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Morals, revealed preferences, aesthetics etc. are all very real. They just have very little to do with the mind. All the mind is is this interpretative superstrate that is fairly uninteresting unless you are very well-trained in its use. So *mind* may well be flat...

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But behaviourists already spent decades trying to suppress and deny evidence of all that other stuff, and were so thoroughly discredited that there seems little point in retreading it atm.