Having not read the book yet, I’m kind of stumped at how different this review is to the one from Alexander. The two posts make it sound like a completely different book, especially with respect to the philosophical questions, and especially especially with respect to the expressed confidence. Is this book a neutral review of the leading theories that explicitly avoids taking sides, or is it a pitch for another I-solved-the-entire-problem theory? It can’t really be both.
Yes it can. Like any bistable perception can be both one percept for someone and a very different percept for someone else. That means they don’t have the same kernels.
Having not read the book yet, I’m kind of stumped at how different this review is to the one from Alexander. The two posts make it sound like a completely different book, especially with respect to the philosophical questions, and especially especially with respect to the expressed confidence. Is this book a neutral review of the leading theories that explicitly avoids taking sides, or is it a pitch for another I-solved-the-entire-problem theory? It can’t really be both.
Yes it can. Like any bistable perception can be both one percept for someone and a very different percept for someone else. That means they don’t have the same kernels.