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What is it like to be a cricket bat?
by gizajob 4y ago
What is it like to be a cricket bat?
- mellosouls 4y agohttps://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/like_to_be_a_rock/rock.html https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/like...
- uoaei 4y agoThis kind of retort is a rookie error in the field of philosophy of mind. It clings too closely to notions of 1) self-awareness as an essential component of awareness per se (it's not) and 2) awareness as an essential component of experience per se (it's not). Edit: I was referring to the link, not the top-level comment. It reads like an attempt at rebuttal from someone relatively unfamiliar with the field writ large.
- nbramia 4y agoThis kind of retort is a rookie error in the field of comedy. It clings too closely to notions like 1) there's no place for humor in a serious discussion (there is) and 2) you're smarter than everyone else (you're not)
- gizajob 4y agoYeah my retort about the cricket bat came from someone with a postgrad in philosophy from a top British University. I reckon Wittgenstein would have been tickled by it. Plus with contemporary metaphysical interest in panpsychism, then "what is it like to be a cricket bat?" isn't even a moot question.
- mellosouls 4y agoI was referring to the link, not the top-level comment The link was posted as an earlier example of the comment it was replying to.
- uoaei 4y agoIf the link is satire, it's indeed quite opaque. For panpsychists it is a legitimate question that, if explored, helps clarify the levels of awareness and agency that occur in different objects vis a vis conscious experience.
- mellosouls 4y agoYes, I agree. I thought the original comment I was replying to was just in the same tradition of the link as dismissing the concept as silly without really understanding it (or worse, understanding it and trivialising the approach).