He has one potent intuition going for him, and if it generated some striking new predictions, or promised to explain something otherwise baffling, we might join him in trying to construct a new theory of consciousness around it, but it stands alone, hard to deny but otherwise theoretically inert.
Basically, if a robustly pumped intuition leads nowhere, then be wary of it.
So an intuition pump can’t serve any skeptical purpose? It can’t remind you that you don’t know as much as you think you know, that you are over confident, that there is something that had been left unexplained?
So an intuition pump can’t serve any skeptical purpose? It can’t remind you that you don’t know as much as you think you know, that you are over confident, that there is something that had been left unexplained?
Why not?