I skipped the stuff on p-zombies when I read R:AZ because I experienced difficulty reading ‘Zombies! Zombies?’ and I didn’t expect it to be as useful as what came later in the book.
Now I feel silly, because this time my reading experience was fluent and I had that extra processing motivation from the content’s ‘recency’.
Now I think it didn’t have much at all to do with how useful I thought it would be at the time. It seems more like I asked “Are there minutiae on Penrose?” rather than “Will this be useful to know?”
After all, I didn’t read the rest of the book via some mantra of instrumentality; not really. Instrumental value was a nice side effect like profits to the cheesecake industry is a nice side effect of consuming cheesecake. I really read it because it was enjoyable to read.
So, this content now seems accessible to at least one person to whom it did not seem accessible before. That seems like a plausible goal of someone rewriting something.
I skipped the stuff on p-zombies when I read R:AZ because I experienced difficulty reading ‘Zombies! Zombies?’ and I didn’t expect it to be as useful as what came later in the book.
Now I feel silly, because this time my reading experience was fluent and I had that extra processing motivation from the content’s ‘recency’.
Now I think it didn’t have much at all to do with how useful I thought it would be at the time. It seems more like I asked “Are there minutiae on Penrose?” rather than “Will this be useful to know?”
After all, I didn’t read the rest of the book via some mantra of instrumentality; not really. Instrumental value was a nice side effect like profits to the cheesecake industry is a nice side effect of consuming cheesecake. I really read it because it was enjoyable to read.
So, this content now seems accessible to at least one person to whom it did not seem accessible before. That seems like a plausible goal of someone rewriting something.