2023-09-17 15:17 UTC
Thanks, @beneuroscience@neuromatch.social, for your engagement (& your nice words about my work).
Hell will freeze over before someone like @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org will change their mind or will engage in a true reflection on their world view. It was never my aim to achieve that.
I cultivate a grumpy online persona to make a statement about my frustration with the way philosophy is treated by scientists these days. Also: my provocations reveal the kind of tactics that are used to avoid real discussion about ...
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-17 15:21
@beneuroscience@neuromatch.social ... fundamental philosophical issues that scientists really *should* be thinking about today. This kind of discussion would reveal just how shaky much of contemporary research in the life & neurosciences is, not to mention AI research (which is the most metaphysically confused of all) ... Being nice just leads to deadly silence. That's the standard discussion suppression mechanism. I try to break through it by being a pain in the ass. It's not pleasant, but it often works.