Blind Brain Theory is the red pill to end all red pills, I must try to study it in depth despite having evolved for shallow info acquisition
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I've given it a cursory reading and it seems that "introspection is useless/misleading" is a core assumption. Am I correct?
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"The attempt of the neurosciences to perform an erasure of 1st person experience" huh? Neuroscience is not able do this.
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Roberts is a more rewarding writer in a literary sense at least, and though Bakker's position is strong he undercuts Roberts >
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theory that "meaningful-ness [is] the driver of physical evolution", or rather, he doesn't quite engage with it directly...
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Bakker sometimes seems more concerned with driving home the inadequacy of our meta-cognition with the argument that it is >
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A young artifact of evolution, and thus will be limited in ways non-recursive perception is not, but this does not quite ...
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A young artifact of evolution, and thus will be limited in ways non-recursive perception won't be, but this does not quite ...
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deal with the more practical, or "I-enough", evaluation that Roberts is explicitly dealing with.
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The two thinkers do agree on quite a lot, but there are sharp differences, and I intuitively side with Roberts on some of them...