“Garden-variety” just means “typical”, and by “armchair speculation” I meant opinions not backed up rigorously and not grounded in the relevant sciences (e.g., cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology).
I should have left out the “armchair”, since that gives the wrong impression of speculating about things in which one has no experience whatsoever, which is not the case here.
can you define garden-variety armchair speculation?
“Garden-variety” just means “typical”, and by “armchair speculation” I meant opinions not backed up rigorously and not grounded in the relevant sciences (e.g., cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology).
I should have left out the “armchair”, since that gives the wrong impression of speculating about things in which one has no experience whatsoever, which is not the case here.