Status Updates From Intuition Pumps and Other T...

Now DD is apparently resorting to blackmail ("Those who shy from Darwinian thinking woulld do well to consider...they may be cut off from cutting edge research").Memes as metaphysic entities.

Now firmly in reductionist territory, along the lines of - If it plays like Kasparov, it thinks chess like Kasparov - Deniers take not: nobody ever came up with a better algorithm (?)

veered in discussing evolution. DD likes Borges' Library of babel, so he gets points forma that

Is now turned into full fledged promoting DD's view of consciousness (roughly it is an emerging property of pattern matching in biological automata, which I do not find very convincing), giving very not much space, but quite a bit of scorn, to differing points of view. Not to be ensnared in his own counter-advice, uses italics in place of "surely", but cannot escape the implications.

Long interlude explaining register & Turing machines

Tools all but forgotten after the first 50 pages or so, the book is now about consciousness.

More interested in scoring than in tools?

Why did I read books in the middle of the night? Do I find no other useful time? Doesn't it come at a steep consciousness price?