[FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

[Eric Charles]

"But it strikes me that one cannot simultaneously believe that all thinking
is metaphorical and *not* admit to some form of the hard problem."

Those issues do not seem inherently related to me. Can you elaborate? If
so, I might be able to respond better.

I'm pretty sure I disagree strongly with the claim that "all thinking is
metaphorical", unless we mean "thinking" in some very narrow sense such
that the claim somehow becomes true by definition. That disagreement
probably isn't helping me in getting whatever you are getting at.

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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
American University - Adjunct Instructor
<echarles at american.edu>


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:32 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> But how do we process this statement by Nick:
>
> On 4/17/20 4:08 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I think an obsessively metaphorical thinker is one who has the arrogance
> to suppose that s/he has */some/* familiar experience by which s/he can
> model any experience of another person.  I actually don't believe that that
> is true, but I think it is true enough that I feel it is my obligation to
> try.
>
> He's straight up *saying* that metaphor is used as a way to solve or gloss
> over the hard problem. Now, I don't particularly care if it's actually Nick
> we're talking about or some other "obssesively metaphorical thinker". But
> it strikes me that one cannot simultaneously believe that all thinking is
> metaphorical and *not* admit to some form of the hard problem.
>
>
> On 4/29/20 10:11 AM, Eric Charles wrote:
> > I think we should take the inadequacy of the wastebasket example as
> evidence that Nick is being honest about really, really not understanding
> what the hard problem is.
>
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