[FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve
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gepropella at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 14:32:12 EDT 2020
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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