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Well the existence of a whole group of "not even wrong" theories doesn't make any single one of them less deserving of complaint when it shows up on its own at
by judk 12y ago
Well the existence of a whole group of "not even wrong" theories doesn't make any single one of them less deserving of complaint when it shows up on its own at a party like HN
- brudgers 12y agoTo me theories of mind are like programming languages, there's room for lots of them and having one in my toolbox doesn't mean that I cannot have others...and if one is not suited for a particular task or just doesn't appeal to me...well that doesn't make the whole raft of them bad. And I take the analogy between programming languages and theories of mind seriously. We don't dismiss programming languages because they don't describe the physical flipping of particular bits that happens on the computer and we don't throw out client-server architectural models when we are working with only one machine. Physicalism when it comes to computing is absurd in most contexts.