His point is not valid, because it doesn’t distinguish the difficulty of self-understanding from that of understanding the world-out-there, as nshepperd points out. (There was also this unrelated issue where he didn’t seem to understand what quines can do.) A human self-model would talk about abstract beliefs first, not necessarily connecting them to the state of the brain in any way.
His point is not valid, because it doesn’t distinguish the difficulty of self-understanding from that of understanding the world-out-there, as nshepperd points out. (There was also this unrelated issue where he didn’t seem to understand what quines can do.)
I don’t? Can you elaborate on what exactly I don’t understand. Also, “self” is a really vague term.
His point is not valid, because it doesn’t distinguish the difficulty of self-understanding from that of understanding the world-out-there, as nshepperd points out. (There was also this unrelated issue where he didn’t seem to understand what quines can do.) A human self-model would talk about abstract beliefs first, not necessarily connecting them to the state of the brain in any way.
I don’t? Can you elaborate on what exactly I don’t understand. Also, “self” is a really vague term.