How do I explain how hallucinogens cause hallucinations or the fact people are not normally hallucinating? (I'm not following, I'm afraid). My position is: the mind is universal explainer - not that all minds know how to do everything minds in principle are capable of doing.
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I'm tired of drum-beaters who think that by obscuring some feature of the map that's irrelevant to their particular tune, they can obscure the territory itself. They end up looking naive at best and dishonest at worst, and when their ideas are useful it's painful to watch.
If the message is "people should think about and work on what they actually like thinking about and working on," I'm there. 100%. But if you argue from what looks like naive blank-slatism, everything you want to avoid about hardware-as-destiny is recaptured in desire-as-destiny
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Imagine the horrorshow associated with the following phrase: "If you really enjoyed this, you wouldn't be struggling with it so much." Maybe. Or maybe you could find one of any number of mediating obstacles between thinker and inputs, resolve it, and not gaslight anyone.
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...and maybe you can't resolve it (yet, even if it is resolvable in theory), and the best you can do is find somewhat-effective workarounds. Maybe the struggles persist and progress is slow. Is that the end of the world? I don't think so.
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