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Thursday, 15 April 2021
Theories of the mind necessarily miss the point, no matter how operational they might be in given contexts, no matter what new and fascinating structures they reveal - and all those structures are essentially two mirrors facing each other, variations of that - or how well they project into the sublime. That is why it is best to treat them as no more than games, ways of killing time. And the point? This is elusive, you can't get it in your cross-hairs. It's one of those things like the question as to whether everyone's colour qualia are the same, that you either get or you don't, or even whether consciousness 'exists'. If you do 'get it' then there is no blame attached to not doing so, but if you don't the absurdity of the question will only annoy you. A slight shift in focus is needed, that's all.
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