Sure, there’s nothing incompatible with The Standard View and The Most Astonishing Fact. And there’s nothing incompatible with The Standard View and a brain having internal states, or being arbitrarily complex. I tried to make both of those points in the essay, though probably not that well.
The point in this essay is that The Standard View is not useful for explaining how our brains perform high level cognition, even if high level cognition is consistent with The Standard View.
Sure, there’s nothing incompatible with The Standard View and The Most Astonishing Fact. And there’s nothing incompatible with The Standard View and a brain having internal states, or being arbitrarily complex. I tried to make both of those points in the essay, though probably not that well.
The point in this essay is that The Standard View is not useful for explaining how our brains perform high level cognition, even if high level cognition is consistent with The Standard View.