I’ve been skimming it for ~20 minutes. Every single paragraph or page that I’ve read made sense to me, although for the non-math parts I have to trust that their citations and references are correct and in context.
I can’t yet say what the overarching purpose of the paper is exactly, beyond the general idea of “Hey guys, let’s formalise this shit!”, but I would put the chances of there actually being meaningful work in the PDF at between 0.6 and 0.7. I will certainly agree that there’s a ton of filler in there, but it’s quite useful if—as they claim—the target readership for this paper is an ensemble of philosophers, psychologists and scientists with the most diverse backgrounds.
It reminds me a bit of a paper by two of my professors, which took the Kantian philosophy of knowledge and rephrased it in the form of topology, in the process (allegedly) managing to clear away the ambiguity from a few philosophical terms. Though in their case they treated it quite lightly, as little more than LaTeX-ing up some of their coffee chats.
I’ve been skimming it for ~20 minutes. Every single paragraph or page that I’ve read made sense to me, although for the non-math parts I have to trust that their citations and references are correct and in context.
I can’t yet say what the overarching purpose of the paper is exactly, beyond the general idea of “Hey guys, let’s formalise this shit!”, but I would put the chances of there actually being meaningful work in the PDF at between 0.6 and 0.7. I will certainly agree that there’s a ton of filler in there, but it’s quite useful if—as they claim—the target readership for this paper is an ensemble of philosophers, psychologists and scientists with the most diverse backgrounds.
It reminds me a bit of a paper by two of my professors, which took the Kantian philosophy of knowledge and rephrased it in the form of topology, in the process (allegedly) managing to clear away the ambiguity from a few philosophical terms. Though in their case they treated it quite lightly, as little more than LaTeX-ing up some of their coffee chats.