Ah, after researching it: That’s actually a great line. Haha — fair enough. I’ll take “a chapter from the punishment book in Anathem” as a kind of backhanded compliment.
If we’re invoking Anathem, then at least we’re in the right monastery.
That said, if the content is genuinely unhelpful or unclear, I’d love to know where the argument loses you — or what would make it more accessible. If it just feels like dense metaphysics-without-payoff, maybe I need to do a better job showing how the structure of the argument differs from standard illusionism or deflationary physicalism.
Yeah, I meant is as a not-a-compliment, but as a specific kind of not-a-compliment about a feeling of reading it rather then about actual meaning—which I just couldn’t access because this feeling was too much for my mind to continue reading (and this isn’t a high bar for a post—I read a lot of long texts).
Understandable. Reading such a dense text is a big investment—and chances are, it’s going nowhere… (even though it actually does, lol). So yeah, I totally would’ve done the same and ditch. But thanks for giving it a shot!
Ah, after researching it: That’s actually a great line. Haha — fair enough. I’ll take “a chapter from the punishment book in Anathem” as a kind of backhanded compliment.
If we’re invoking Anathem, then at least we’re in the right monastery.
That said, if the content is genuinely unhelpful or unclear, I’d love to know where the argument loses you — or what would make it more accessible. If it just feels like dense metaphysics-without-payoff, maybe I need to do a better job showing how the structure of the argument differs from standard illusionism or deflationary physicalism.
Yeah, I meant is as a not-a-compliment, but as a specific kind of not-a-compliment about a feeling of reading it rather then about actual meaning—which I just couldn’t access because this feeling was too much for my mind to continue reading (and this isn’t a high bar for a post—I read a lot of long texts).
Understandable. Reading such a dense text is a big investment—and chances are, it’s going nowhere… (even though it actually does, lol). So yeah, I totally would’ve done the same and ditch. But thanks for giving it a shot!