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Kanjun 🐙
@kanjun
A surprising amount of literature in philosophy of mind tries to model our internal hallucinated mental experience, vs. looking for mechanistic generators of that experience. I suspect this is largely a mistake, that some “hard questions” aren’t hard, aren’t the right questions.
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Kanjun 🐙
@kanjun
For example, much work on consciousness & qualia tries to explain our minds from inside our experience, rather than looking at it from outside. Of course, it’s very confusing from the inside - like trying to model the hallucination instead of the generators of the hallucination.
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Kanjun 🐙
@kanjun
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@andy_matuschak
That’s a great point! I do remember distinctly thinking the first time on psychedelics that my brain was doing all this processing and I could finally see it.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
That's funny, I remember my first time trying desperately to model the hallucinations and failing, over and over again, to my increasing horror. Wrong move! 🙃
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