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    1. Arlyn Culwick‏ @arlynculwick May 3
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      You stand in the entrance hall. There are three doors: Radical disintermediation: https://twitter.com/arlynculwick/status/1256538042644529152?s=20 … Minimal governance: https://twitter.com/arlynculwick/status/1209450191373455362?s=20 … Purpose in the universe:https://twitter.com/arlynculwick/status/1193299425826877445?s=20 …

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      How do we avoid purposes being mere superstitious nonsense? This starts, for me, with the question of whether any ends are real, or if they're all just mind-dependent constructs in a universe devoid of goals or meaning. https://twitter.com/arlynculwick/status/1193260295961141249 …
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    2. Arlyn Culwick‏ @arlynculwick Jun 11
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      A fourth door: Realism vs solipsismhttps://twitter.com/arlynculwick/status/1270978382130565121?s=19 …

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      Solipsism is disbelief in the existence of other *minds*. Neither is Cartesian scepticism the tool to clarify the experience. Its reliance on certainty, and its foundationalist approach, is foreign to the probabilistic and coherentist nature of scientific knowledge.
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    3. Arlyn Culwick‏ @arlynculwick Jun 11
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      Arlyn Culwick Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Idealists often bolster their position by mistakenly believing the things they directly experience (i.e. relations to objects) are part of the self.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1271109956268249094?s=19 …

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      Basically we might say that I take the indexicality sub-problem of the hard problem of consciousness a lot more seriously than you appear to. Haven’t revisited the topic since 2007, but it’s still as serious for me 13 years later. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/10/01/where-is-i/ …
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 11
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      You’re very sure of your positions. I don’t think you’re temperamentally suited for our team anyway 😂

      4:52 PM - 11 Jun 2020
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        2. Arlyn Culwick‏ @arlynculwick Jun 11
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          In this case, yes, because it looks like a knock-down: Direct experience of real relations cannot be experience only of self, since relations here are between self and things. The extended "self" you describe in your 2007 blog post therefore cannot just be self.

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        3. Arlyn Culwick‏ @arlynculwick Jun 11
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          Wait, there's a team Venk? 😀 _considers abandoning lone philosopher role_

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