I suspect my experience is somewhat similar to shminux’s.
I simply can’t follow these posts, and the experience of reading them feels odd, and even off-putting at times (in an uncanny valley sort of way). At the same time, I can see that a number of people in the comments are saying that they find great value in them.
My first guess as to why I had trouble with them was that there are basically no concrete examples given, but now I don’t think that’s the reason. Personally, I get a strong sense of “I must be making some sort of typical mind fallacy” here. Something about our world views, or internal models of cognition, or something along those lines must be dramatically different. It’s hard to communicate just how difficult it is for me to make sense of these posts without being rude.
Thanks for the interesting read, and I love the watercolors.
I… wish I could find a particular phrase. It’s like I am trying to find that fulcrum (lever?) that would shift my perspective in a way you describe so that I finally get what you are talking about, but it keeps escaping me the moment I zoom in on anything in particular.
Just to check, when you say “this and previous posts”, do you mean all the stuff in Intro To Naturalism as well, or are you trying to make sense of just the posts so far published in Nuts and Bolts on their own?
I went through both, and tried to see what I am missing here, since I remember then your earlier writeups on noticing resonated with me back then. Sadly… I have made no progress.
Almost certainly not.
Could you perhaps highlight a particular phrase that baffles you?
I suspect my experience is somewhat similar to shminux’s.
I simply can’t follow these posts, and the experience of reading them feels odd, and even off-putting at times (in an uncanny valley sort of way). At the same time, I can see that a number of people in the comments are saying that they find great value in them.
My first guess as to why I had trouble with them was that there are basically no concrete examples given, but now I don’t think that’s the reason. Personally, I get a strong sense of “I must be making some sort of typical mind fallacy” here. Something about our world views, or internal models of cognition, or something along those lines must be dramatically different. It’s hard to communicate just how difficult it is for me to make sense of these posts without being rude.
Thanks for the interesting read, and I love the watercolors.
I… wish I could find a particular phrase. It’s like I am trying to find that fulcrum (lever?) that would shift my perspective in a way you describe so that I finally get what you are talking about, but it keeps escaping me the moment I zoom in on anything in particular.
Just to check, when you say “this and previous posts”, do you mean all the stuff in Intro To Naturalism as well, or are you trying to make sense of just the posts so far published in Nuts and Bolts on their own?
I went through both, and tried to see what I am missing here, since I remember then your earlier writeups on noticing resonated with me back then. Sadly… I have made no progress.