I like that this went out and did some ‘field work’, and is clear about the process so you can evaluate how compelling to find it. I found the concept of a conflationary alliance pretty helpful.
That said, I don’t think the second half of the article argues especially well for a “consciousness conflationary alliance” existing. I did immediately think “oh this seems like a fairly likely thing to exist as soon as it’s pointed out” (in particular given some recent discussion on why consciousness is difficult to talk about), but I think if it wasn’t immediately intuitive to me the second-half-of-the-post wouldn’t have really have convinced me.
Still, I like this post for object-level helping me realize how many ways people were using “consciousness”, and giving me some gears to think about re: how rationality might get wonky around politics.
Curated.
I like that this went out and did some ‘field work’, and is clear about the process so you can evaluate how compelling to find it. I found the concept of a conflationary alliance pretty helpful.
That said, I don’t think the second half of the article argues especially well for a “consciousness conflationary alliance” existing. I did immediately think “oh this seems like a fairly likely thing to exist as soon as it’s pointed out” (in particular given some recent discussion on why consciousness is difficult to talk about), but I think if it wasn’t immediately intuitive to me the second-half-of-the-post wouldn’t have really have convinced me.
Still, I like this post for object-level helping me realize how many ways people were using “consciousness”, and giving me some gears to think about re: how rationality might get wonky around politics.