Eliezer often fails to communicate clearly (I still don’t know whether he thinks numbers exist) and argues vaguely.
Agree! Very frustrating. What I had in mind was, for example, his advice about dissolving the question, which is not the same advice you’d get from logical positivists or (most) contemporary naturalists.
I don’t see your point.
Sorry, I should have been clearer that I wasn’t trying to make much of a point by sending you the Machery article. I just wanted to send you a bit of snark. :)
What I had in mind was, for example, his advise about dissolving the question, which is not the same advice you’d get from logical positivists or (most) contemporary naturalists
I skimmed the paper. Dennett’s project is a dissolving one, though he does less to explain why we think we have qualia than Yudkowsky did with regard to why we think we have free will. But perhaps Dennett wrote something later which more explicitly sets out to explain why we think we have qualia?
Agree! Very frustrating. What I had in mind was, for example, his advice about dissolving the question, which is not the same advice you’d get from logical positivists or (most) contemporary naturalists.
Sorry, I should have been clearer that I wasn’t trying to make much of a point by sending you the Machery article. I just wanted to send you a bit of snark. :)
I don’t see the significance of that. You definitely get it from some notable naturalists,
I skimmed the paper. Dennett’s project is a dissolving one, though he does less to explain why we think we have qualia than Yudkowsky did with regard to why we think we have free will. But perhaps Dennett wrote something later which more explicitly sets out to explain why we think we have qualia?