Janus ratio, what's the point?
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Following ups to the post above where these comments on predictive materialism lie:
https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/is-the-universe-a-calculator.html
https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/minimum-viable-product.html
Why do you do this migration thing? I have comments, but I can't leave them there!
> I have to admit that I do not think of materialism that way.
If I had written this, it would have been rather an understatement. The very nice author you are discussing said:
> Once the rivals are understood as philosophical rather than scientific
And my sincere response is to say OH DEAR LORD, human beings are about as good at philosophy as a four year old flipping a coin. The idea that materialism means "Consciousness arises from predictive processing" is itself an example of such a coin flip, and I'm not even sure the four year old caught the coin. I'm not what most people call a materialist, but really? Consciousness arises from predictive processing? Materialism might suggest consciousness probably arises from some looping nonlinear process, but who knows what.