Good point, though I think it’s a non-fallacious enthymeme. Like, we’re talking about a car that moves around under its own power, but somehow doesn’t have parts that receive, store, transform, and release energy and could be removed? Could be. The mind could be an obscure mess where nothing is factored, so that a cancerous newcomer with read-write access can’t get any work out of the mind other than through the top-level interface. I think that explicitness (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KuKaQEu7JjBNzcoj5/explicitness) is a very strong general tendency (cline) in minds, but if that’s not true then my first reason for believing the enthymeme’s hidden premise is wrong.
Good point, though I think it’s a non-fallacious enthymeme. Like, we’re talking about a car that moves around under its own power, but somehow doesn’t have parts that receive, store, transform, and release energy and could be removed? Could be. The mind could be an obscure mess where nothing is factored, so that a cancerous newcomer with read-write access can’t get any work out of the mind other than through the top-level interface. I think that explicitness (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KuKaQEu7JjBNzcoj5/explicitness) is a very strong general tendency (cline) in minds, but if that’s not true then my first reason for believing the enthymeme’s hidden premise is wrong.