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Reality is events. Matter as substratum is an invention. Bifurcated nature: against Sellars before Sellars. Sense awareness terminates in nature but nature is self contained, and so independent of thought. Thus sense awareness cannot be exhausted by thought.

ANW is on its way to solve the meaning crisis!

The a priori core belief that the world is a place in which action is possible and worthwhile is a developmental acquisition. Such an important idea!

Page 241 of this 370 page long book with “mental disorder” in the title: “we now turn to order and disorder in human psychological functioning.”

Absolute page turner. The schéma are so clear a donkey would understand how ion channels and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work

Underwhelming so far. Outdated perhaps

So people who are like us are intentionally describable and those who are not, are not, and that’s it

The first two chapters deal with a priori and a posteriori cases for rationality: in the a priori case, intentional ascription rests on rationality assumptions, but then there is no independence that people are rational. In the a posteriori case, rational beliefs are naturally selected, but there is no evidence for that.

Finally everything makes sense

The computational level is in the same relation to the physical level as the syntactic to the semantic, and there is no correlation between the computational and semantic levels of content in the sense that semantic characterizations of content can be explanatory independently of their computational implementations (eg sameness of semantic content does not guarantee sameness of computational state)

Predictive processing as wide computationalism

It’s so good my mind is hanging on to its seat