EDIT: Appears to be a repost of this discussion topic, which was also stillborn. If this was supposed to be a second draft, it probably would have been better to get feedback before posting.
Fixed the editing (some malfunctioning in paragraphs was not appearing in my Linux.) This is not a repost, and I had feedback from Vassar among others before publishing.
This text only contains the same content because it is the first part of a sequence. Before I was looking for feedback, now I’m just presenting the text in parts.
When I said, “it needs an editor,” I meant that there are a large number of typographical errors, including a misquote of Hofstadter. Your chess-player thought experiment is difficult to take seriously. When you draw an analogy between the concept of self and the concept of games, you quote Bernard Suits. However, Suits implicitly agrees in the original paper that he only cares about games with goals and/or rules, which is very different from what Wittgenstein was considering. The whole analogy is weakened by this.
An editor would ideally help you resolve these and other issues with the essay.
If you must post it at all, I suggest posting in Discussion. Based on the present draft, I expect it’ll have negative (Karma) value even there… (The main problem is basically that the essay is not sufficiently lucid. It’s a mysterious discussion of a mysterious topic.)
At minimum, it needs an editor.
EDIT: Appears to be a repost of this discussion topic, which was also stillborn. If this was supposed to be a second draft, it probably would have been better to get feedback before posting.
For example, a reader who reads only the topic sentence of each paragraph should understand what the argument is
Concur.
Fixed the editing (some malfunctioning in paragraphs was not appearing in my Linux.) This is not a repost, and I had feedback from Vassar among others before publishing. This text only contains the same content because it is the first part of a sequence. Before I was looking for feedback, now I’m just presenting the text in parts.
The layout is still mostly broken.
When I said, “it needs an editor,” I meant that there are a large number of typographical errors, including a misquote of Hofstadter. Your chess-player thought experiment is difficult to take seriously. When you draw an analogy between the concept of self and the concept of games, you quote Bernard Suits. However, Suits implicitly agrees in the original paper that he only cares about games with goals and/or rules, which is very different from what Wittgenstein was considering. The whole analogy is weakened by this.
An editor would ideally help you resolve these and other issues with the essay.
Ok, I deleted it. Soon I’ll post a version with the whole text, to avoid repost problems. thanks for the comments.
Before doing that, get someone for whom English is their first language to read it over. This is unreadably badly written.
If you must post it at all, I suggest posting in Discussion. Based on the present draft, I expect it’ll have negative (Karma) value even there… (The main problem is basically that the essay is not sufficiently lucid. It’s a mysterious discussion of a mysterious topic.)