![]() ![]() I suppose this is evidence of Watt’s talent. ![]() ![]() The book put me in a funk for a week - even though I don’t hold any of the positions it sinks. And then add the century to come’s automation and self-modification. The Blindsight ethos - big damn Gothic fatalist Darwinism - is what you get when you take a traditional worldview (dualism, free will, work as what dignifies life, human exceptionalism, further-fact identity) and slam the disenchanting results of a hundred years of science into it. Also threatening names like “ executive psychopath”. It takes unthreatening academic names like “ agnosia”, “ readiness potential”, “ interhemispheric intrusion”, “ neurotheology”, “ reconstructive memory”, “ semantic externalism”. It isn’t in the paper or the data: it depends on subverting your sentimental sense of self, meaning, will, introspection, spirituality if you don’t have these, it won’t register. Weird realism and the misanthropic interpretation of neuroscience. ![]()
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