Must be the inference gap between a philosopher and a scientist.
I don’t think so, I think I was just unclear. It’s perfectly fine of course for Aaronson to say ‘if I can’t understand part of the problem of free will within a scientific methodology, I’m going to set it aside.’ But it’s not okay for him to say ‘if I can’t understand part of the problem of free will within a scientific methodology, we should all just set it aside as unanswerable’ unless he has some argument to that effect. Hardcore naturalism is awesome, but we don’t get it by assumption.
Sorry, I don’t understand your rephrasing. Must be the inference gap between a philosopher and a scientist.
I don’t think so, I think I was just unclear. It’s perfectly fine of course for Aaronson to say ‘if I can’t understand part of the problem of free will within a scientific methodology, I’m going to set it aside.’ But it’s not okay for him to say ‘if I can’t understand part of the problem of free will within a scientific methodology, we should all just set it aside as unanswerable’ unless he has some argument to that effect. Hardcore naturalism is awesome, but we don’t get it by assumption.
Hmm, I don’t believe that he is saying anything like that.