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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What I don't buy is the dichotomy between "human consiousness is 'special'" and "there's nothing home". plenty middle ground.
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Yes I can even understand the claim that "experience is radically different than how we are able to describe" i.e non-intentional
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I'd read it as "there is no inside view"? Which I can't say for sure but distinction between inside/outside view is useful.
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So for me to claim that is to willfully throw away a useful tool of understanding. But maybe better reasons follow.
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I see how it may be useful to critique any residue "ghostliness" or errors that arise from grammatical structure (the "cogito")
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And I have no problem with skepticism regarding identity and ego, or even subject... I guess we're just left with perception.
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