Hmm… So going back to the paragraph I was responding to:
On the inside, before you Look, the thing you’re about to Look at doesn’t look on the inside like “high-level cognitive content”. It looks like how things are. This ends up with me saying things that sound kind of crazy or nonsensical, but to me are obvious once I Look at them. (E.g., there are no objects. We create objects in order to think. Because language is suffused with object-ness, though, I don’t know of any coherent way of talking about this.)
Are you saying that LW’s approach to ontology has a different problem from this (which causes it to not be able to create an ontology that captures everything that’s important about Looking)? (In other words, this paragraph wasn’t meant to apply to LW; LW has a different problem.) Or is it something more like, LW’s approach appreciates “we create objects in order to think” on an intellectual level but not on a practical level?
Or is it something more like, LW’s approach appreciates “we create objects in order to think” on an intellectual level but not on a practical level?
That one.
Though to be clear, I’m not trying to talk specifically about the “there are no objects” thing exactly. I was using that as an example of something seen via Looking that I imagine sounds kind of crazy or nonsensical.
But I do mean that LW culture occurs to me as being subject to its ontology, and to the extent that there’s discussion of this, that discussion is pretty reliably done within that ontology. This gives the illusion of it being justified (when that’s actually just a consistency check) and makes the ontology’s blindspots incredibly difficult to point out.
Hmm… So going back to the paragraph I was responding to:
Are you saying that LW’s approach to ontology has a different problem from this (which causes it to not be able to create an ontology that captures everything that’s important about Looking)? (In other words, this paragraph wasn’t meant to apply to LW; LW has a different problem.) Or is it something more like, LW’s approach appreciates “we create objects in order to think” on an intellectual level but not on a practical level?
That one.
Though to be clear, I’m not trying to talk specifically about the “there are no objects” thing exactly. I was using that as an example of something seen via Looking that I imagine sounds kind of crazy or nonsensical.
But I do mean that LW culture occurs to me as being subject to its ontology, and to the extent that there’s discussion of this, that discussion is pretty reliably done within that ontology. This gives the illusion of it being justified (when that’s actually just a consistency check) and makes the ontology’s blindspots incredibly difficult to point out.