The problem was, he eliminated the impossible, but left open a huge vast space of possible hypotheses that he didn’t know about (but which we do): the most common of these is the computational theory of mind and consciousness, which says that we are made of cognitive algorithms.
Wait, are you suggesting that the reviewer (Jerry Fodor) is unaware of the computational theory of mind? Unlikely, given that he is one of its progenitors. From the wikipedia article on the computational theory:
The theory was proposed in its modern form by Hilary Putnam in 1961, and developed by the MIT philosopher and cognitive scientist (and Putnam’s PhD student) Jerry Fodor in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Yep. Eli failed to consider the hypothesis that the philosophers who reject CTM do so because they have objections to it, rather than because they have never heard if it.
Wait, are you suggesting that the reviewer (Jerry Fodor) is unaware of the computational theory of mind? Unlikely, given that he is one of its progenitors. From the wikipedia article on the computational theory:
Yep. Eli failed to consider the hypothesis that the philosophers who reject CTM do so because they have objections to it, rather than because they have never heard if it.