I still endorse every claim in this post. The one thing I keep wondering is whether I should have used real examples from discussion threads on LessWrong to illustrate the application of the two camp model, rather than making up a fictional discussion as I did in the post. I think that would probably help, but it would require singling out someone and using them as a negative example, which I don’t want to do. I’m still reading every new post and comment section about consciousness and often link to this post when I see something that looks like miscommunication to me; I think that works reasonably well.
However, I did streamline the second half of the post (took out the part about modeling the brain as a graph, I don’t think that was necessary to make the point about research) and added a new section about terminology. I think that should make it a little easier to diagnose when the model is relevant in real discussions.
(Self-Review.)
I still endorse every claim in this post. The one thing I keep wondering is whether I should have used real examples from discussion threads on LessWrong to illustrate the application of the two camp model, rather than making up a fictional discussion as I did in the post. I think that would probably help, but it would require singling out someone and using them as a negative example, which I don’t want to do. I’m still reading every new post and comment section about consciousness and often link to this post when I see something that looks like miscommunication to me; I think that works reasonably well.
However, I did streamline the second half of the post (took out the part about modeling the brain as a graph, I don’t think that was necessary to make the point about research) and added a new section about terminology. I think that should make it a little easier to diagnose when the model is relevant in real discussions.