'(·) on Twitter: "@devinhalladay whatever happens in (at least) a human mind is grounded in experience, and through that in the body and its agency, so yeah, the best ontology for one's mind's contents is going to be body-oriented" / Twitter

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Dec 4, 2018

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been thinking in a similar direction recently, coming from dissatisfaction with object-oriented approaches to qualia - qualia are not objects, they lack critical properties of objects, e.g. permanence

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object-oriented approaches are useful when dealing with consensus reality because they map neatly to symbols. Symbolic thought and language are natural tools for negotiating the contents of consensus reality. But they fail when it comes to the contents of minds

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whatever happens in (at least) a human mind is grounded in experience, and through that in the body and its agency, so yeah, the best ontology for one's mind's contents is going to be body-oriented

1:15 AM · Dec 4, 2018Twitter Web Client

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throwing out object-oriented ontology altogether seems unwise though, body-oriented ontology is bad at establishing consensus since people feel very differently, it's a right-tool-for-the-job situation

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open questions: - what's the best interface between the different worlds - what does an egregore's ontology/reality look like, and should we humans care about how it interacts with consensus reality

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