[FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

[Frank Wimberly]

Choosing one's rifle is so concrete.  It makes me want to run out and blow
away a few cacti.  Oh, it's a metaphor!

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On Mon, May 4, 2020, 11:44 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hm. I can't quite parse this, but don't want to ignore it.
>
> I'm not convinced that Chalmers' naturalistic dualism is at all different
> from Peirce's real/extant distinction. From that perspective, Chalmers'
> dualism and Nick's monism are irrelevant to whether or not Nick understands
> the hard problem. What one thinks is actually the case can be unrelated to
> one's taxonomy of possible cases. ("There are many like it, but this one is
> mine.")
>
> I can admit, however, that any one formulation of the hard problem may
> *seem* very different from another formulation. But the mere rejection of a
> lexicon (e.g. "Chalmers-esque") is not a rejection of the problem being
> outlined. If category theory has taught us anything, it's that problems can
> seem quite different, but really be about the same thing. The very fact
> that we can have the discussion we're having is an indication that there is
> a "hard problem" and that it can act as a foil for choosing one's rifle.
>
> On 5/2/20 6:12 AM, Eric Charles wrote:
> > To paraphrase Nick's answer:
> > Yes, of course we /can /build such a machine, so long as you agree to
> treat "enjoy" and "think" and "feel" in the way that I do, and NOT as
> Chalmers or the other dualists would. My approach does not contain a
> Chalmers-esque hard problem.
>
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