The other day Yvain was reading aloud from Feser and I said I wished Feser would read The Simple Truth. I don’t think this would help quite as much.
The Simple Truth sought to convey the intuition that truth is not just a property of propositions in brains, but of any system successfully entangled with another system. Once the shepherd’s leveled up a bit in his craftsmanship, the sheep can pull aside the curtain, drop a pebble into the bucket, and the level in the bucket will remain true without human intervention.
I also really enjoyed this post, and specifically thought that the illustrations were much nicer than what’s been done before.
However, I did notice that out of all the illustrations that were made for this post, there were about 8 male characters drawn, and 0 females. (The first picture of the Sally-Anne test did portray females, but it was taken from another source, not drawn for this post like the others.) In the future, it might be a good idea to portray both men AND women in your illustrations. I know that you personally use the “flip a coin” method for gender assignment when you can, but it doesn’t seem like the illustrator does (There IS a 0.3% chance that the coin flips just all came up “male” for the drawings)
The specs given to the illustrator were stick figures. I noticed the male prevalence and requested some female versions or replacement with actual stick figures.
I hadn’t noticed about their sex, but I did notice that they all seem to be children and no adults (EDIT: except the professor in the last picture). (BTW, the character with dark hair, pale skin, red T-shirt and blue trousers doesn’t obviously look masculine to me; it might as well be a female child (too young to have boobs).)
This post is better than the simple truth and I will be linking to it more often, even though this isn’t as funny.
Nice illustrations.
EDIT: Reworded in praise-first style.
The other day Yvain was reading aloud from Feser and I said I wished Feser would read The Simple Truth. I don’t think this would help quite as much.
The Simple Truth sought to convey the intuition that truth is not just a property of propositions in brains, but of any system successfully entangled with another system. Once the shepherd’s leveled up a bit in his craftsmanship, the sheep can pull aside the curtain, drop a pebble into the bucket, and the level in the bucket will remain true without human intervention.
Good point.
I also really enjoyed this post, and specifically thought that the illustrations were much nicer than what’s been done before.
However, I did notice that out of all the illustrations that were made for this post, there were about 8 male characters drawn, and 0 females. (The first picture of the Sally-Anne test did portray females, but it was taken from another source, not drawn for this post like the others.) In the future, it might be a good idea to portray both men AND women in your illustrations. I know that you personally use the “flip a coin” method for gender assignment when you can, but it doesn’t seem like the illustrator does (There IS a 0.3% chance that the coin flips just all came up “male” for the drawings)
The specs given to the illustrator were stick figures. I noticed the male prevalence and requested some female versions or replacement with actual stick figures.
In the light of the illustrations’ lack of gender variety it’s strange that they do have a variety of skin and hair colors.
Fixed.
I hadn’t noticed about their sex, but I did notice that they all seem to be children and no adults (EDIT: except the professor in the last picture). (BTW, the character with dark hair, pale skin, red T-shirt and blue trousers doesn’t obviously look masculine to me; it might as well be a female child (too young to have boobs).)
Thanks!
Ditto.