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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.
— May 08, 2014 06:58AM
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Alessandro
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DD Doesn't really like Searle,right? But his take on counsciosness involves lots of hand waving.
— May 17, 2014 11:10PM
Alessandro
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But of course, telling zombies apart from conscious humans is easy: folks who claim they cannot understand what is special about consciousness do not experience it, and are therefore zombies. Which of course mean DCD is one. In any SF/horror novel, he'd be in BIG TROUBLE now.
— May 14, 2014 05:13AM
Alessandro
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The chinese room diatribe. DD is converting me to a pantheistic belief. He has already convinced me that I have an immortal soul. Not what he intended.
— May 13, 2014 10:15PM
Alessandro
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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.
— May 13, 2014 12:04AM
Alessandro
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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 (?)
— May 12, 2014 06:36AM
Alessandro
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veered in discussing evolution. DD likes Borges' Library of babel, so he gets points forma that
— May 08, 2014 10:34PM
Alessandro
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Tools all but forgotten after the first 50 pages or so, the book is now about consciousness.
— May 06, 2014 10:00PM
