Caledonian: uh… he didn’t say you couldn’t make arguments about all possible minds, he was saying you couldn’t construct an argument that’s so persuasive, so convincing that every possible mind, no matter how unusual its nature, would automatically be convinced by that argument.
It’s not a matter of talking about minds, it’s a matter of talking to minds.
Mathematicians figure out things about sets. But they’re not trying to convince the sets themselves about those things. :)
Caledonian: uh… he didn’t say you couldn’t make arguments about all possible minds, he was saying you couldn’t construct an argument that’s so persuasive, so convincing that every possible mind, no matter how unusual its nature, would automatically be convinced by that argument.
It’s not a matter of talking about minds, it’s a matter of talking to minds.
Mathematicians figure out things about sets. But they’re not trying to convince the sets themselves about those things. :)